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Union President I.W. Abel, 62, a practiced and canny negotiator, says that he cannot offer his membership anything less than the package that his union wrested in mid-March from the can industry. That settlement included an increase in wages and benefits amounting to about 31% over three years, plus an escalator clause tied to the cost of living. R. Heath Larry, 57, U.S. Steel's vice chairman, who heads management's bargaining team, has indicated that a 31% wage boost is too high. The most tenacious sticking point, however, will be the cost of living provision...
...Abel's trickiest tasks will be restraining the more volatile bravos within his constituency. Some of them are demanding that the contract restriction on local strikes be scrapped. This would mean that workers at individual plants could walk out over local issues at any time. Abel, who opposes the demand, remembers how that system worked when he was a young steelworker: "We had 39 strikes in my plant in one year. It was strike, strike, strike...
Washington, Stay Home. Both sides want the Government to take a less active role than usual in their negotiations. The Council of Economic Advisers' "inflation alert" last month, which specifically mentioned steel and called for a declining wage trend, angered the ordinarily cool Abel. Steelmakers, far from rejoicing at the admonition, reasoned that it could only antagonize labor and make their negotiations tougher. Says one company bargainer: "I wish to God that the White House would stay out of this one and give us a chance, just once, to negotiate among ourselves...
...accomplishment of Roots of Involvement is to record, in cool temper and spare style, how that hodgepodge developed into the Viet Nam War. The authors are Marvin Kalb, CBS diplomatic correspondent, and Elie Abel, his former NBC rival, now dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. They have combined scholarship legwork to construct this useful chronology. They also offer a thesis: that the Viet Nam War is not an aberration but part of the "inexorable progression" of past misconceptions and blunders, including the desire to bolster France, the general goal of containing Communism, and finally a specific fear...
Still, as Kalb and Abel also demonstrate, the war that no President wanted might have been averted. There were moments in all the post-World War II Administrations when some official wisdom might have saved Lyndon Johnson -not to mention the U.S. and Vietnamese peoples-from the results of the decision to intervene with combat divisions...