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...Exchequer Denis Healey was fairly cheering that the pay raises his countrymen would receive in the year beginning Aug. 1 are "likely to be below those in probably all Western developed countries." Healey's seemingly perverse enthusiasm was not misplaced: his negotiations achieved a union wage accord that was a needed early triumph for Prime Minister James Callaghan's five-week-old government...
...accord calls for limiting all wage increases to an average of 4.5%. Under this arrangement, weekly increases for the 40% of the work force earning between $90 and $144 a week will be 5%. No worker's raise will be less than $4.50 or higher than $7.20. The government's part of the bargain is to cut income taxes by $1.7 billion a year...
...crisis, to wield power formally. But of late matters have become more complicated. The Christian Democrats' election two weeks ago of former Premier Amintore Fanfani (an uncompromising antiCommunist) as president of the party's national council deeply angered the Communists. "We proposed our own broad 'political accord' on all major issues for the duration of this legislature," explained Giorgio Napolitano, a leading Communist, "but the Christian Democrats said yes to Mr. Fanfani and no to us." Zaccagnini and Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer, after a summit meeting last week, were unable to reach an accommodation. Finally, after...
...analysis of Snow White descends to pure jargon: "The queen, who is fixated to a primitive narcissism and arrested in the oral incorporative stage, is a person who cannot positively relate ..." The doctor's narrow Freudian couch allows no room to turn around. Versions that do not accord with orthodox analysis are jettisoned; Disney's version of Snow White, for example, is psychologically useless to the child because each dwarf has a separate name and a distinctive personality. This "seriously interferes with the unconscious understanding that they symbolize an immature, pre-individual form of existence which [the heroine...
President Bok, who consulted with Rosovsky on the appointment criteria, said last night the announced criteria are entirely in accord with affirmative action principles since filling the post involves "simply re-arranging duties" of personnel within the administration...