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Chrysler, Fiat and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative labor agreement over the weekend that could provide the troubled American automaker with a better shot at longevity. Though complete details on the UAW accord have not yet been released, the terms are likely to closely resemble Chrysler's new agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers, ratified over the weekend. The Canadian agreement cuts labor costs to the level paid by non-union plants run by Asian companies such as Toyota, or by $19 Canadian dollars per hour...
...remaining party to any GM or Chrysler accord that averts bankruptcy will be the bondholders, who must agree on a reduction in the amounts owed. At Chrysler, bondholders made concessions on Friday, reducing Chrysler's $6.9 billion of outstanding debt for the second time. The bondholders had earlier agreed to accept $4.5 billion; on Friday they reduced the amount further, to $3.75 billion. A final deal with creditors much be reached by May 1. Among Chrysler's biggest bondholders are JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Even if Chrysler reaches a deal with its major creditors...
...carefully mixed colors - sage, sky blue, maroon - and experimented with texture, using controlled paint splatter for a sandy effect. Nothing is still: in Colorful Ensemble (1938) the splatters are a background of dots on which swim strange biomorphs; in Sky Blue (1940) stripy plankton flutter multiple legs while Reciprocal Accord (1942) fizzes and explodes...
...threat last week to sack the chief of the formerly royalist Nepal army. The move, some say, may have saved the less-than-a-year-old government from being overthrown. The intractable dispute over assimilating the former Maoist guerrillas into the army, as per the terms of the peace accord signed in November 2006, could have led to a military coup. But while the government's reconciliatory decision succeeded in keeping power and pulling a fragile peace process back from the edge, the Maoists now find themselves tasked with trying to stamp out growing unrest amid their own ranks...
...Trouble had been brewing for months in Kathmandu over the most controversial goal of the peace accord: integrating the 19,000 former guerrillas into the Nepal army and, more important, into society. During the Maoists' decade-long insurgency, the former King's Royal Nepalese Army was called upon to tackle the Maoist guerrillas, and the two forces have been stridently inimical to each other ever since. "The fact is, the Nepal army today is the only significant opposition to the Maoist takeover of Nepal," says retired Major General Dipankar Banerjee, director of the New Delhi-based Institute of Peace...