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...convention ended in a shambles of fisticuffs and name-calling. The apparent loser was Shamir, who failed to win a vote of confidence. "You'll never be Prime Minister!" shouted his opponents. Shamir insisted that he would not accept the post anyway if his party did not support him. Unless Shamir can quickly find a way to undo the damage, the crisis within Herut may yet provide Peres with the excuse he needs to seek a mandate to form a government without Likud...
...become competitive. His demands: 17% wage cuts and a two-hour increase in the workweek, which now consists of some 20 in-flight hours. TWA flight attendants currently make an average of $35,000 a year, or 40% more than the industry norm. The union will accept 15% wage reductions but refuses to work as many hours as TWA is requesting...
...Vatican will settle for issuing a statement detailing his errors, but allow him to continue as a theology teacher. Mindful of the potential donnybrook if Curran is dismissed, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, head of Catholic University's board of trustees, has lobbied with the Pope and Ratzinger to accept such a compromise, so far to no avail...
...fresh approach has to be a consensus about what Shultz's depiction of the Sandinistas as unacceptable means, not in terms of anyone's tastes and preferences but in terms of a policy that can be carried out in the real world: What is it that the U.S. cannot accept about the junta in Managua? And what must the U.S. do to transform the Sandinista regime into something the U.S. can live with...
...their borders. Elements of such a deal are at hand in the Contadora proposal, which calls for the reduction of the Sandinista armed forces, the withdrawal of Soviet and Cuban military advisers and a ban on the export of revolution. The Sandinistas have hinted they might be willing to accept something along those lines. Even some Administration officials believe the Sandinistas might pay that price to get the contras off their--backs...