Word: auge
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Adding to the pressure on negotiators for both sides were big steel users, among them General Motors. It had threatened to begin ordering supplies this month from foreign makers if no contract was reached. Such an impasse would have left the industry vulnerable to a strike after Aug. 1, when the old contract was to have lapsed. Last week's deal supersedes that one, and it will run through July 1986. The reduction in hourly pay becomes effective immediately. But it will be restored in increments in 1984, 1985 and 1986. That did not appease everyone. Said Fran Rattigan...
...addition, surely Mr. Bisharat knows that the PLO placed its weaponry in, on, or near civilian institutions like hospitals, schools, and churches. Why? To quote a senior PLO representative, "the more civilians killed [in Lebanon] the better, because of the tactical advantage it gives to the Palestinian cause" (Times, Aug. 6). A Voice of Lebanon broadcast from July 9 said, "Palestinian gunmen are trying by every means to keep the various roads cut off in order to keep civilians in [West] Beirut," even though the Israelis exhorted them to leave through the dropping of leaflets. Certainly, civilian casualties would have...
...home, Interior Secretary James Watt was the man readers loved to hate. An Aug. 23 cover story on Watt and his policies, "Land Sale of the Century," set 268 mostly hostile pens to work. "Watt an obnoxious character behind that repulsive face on the cover!" said one punster. The rest of the Reagan Administration, including the President, was also attacked, and a majority of those who expressed themselves rejected dense pack, Reaganomics, the New Federalism and support for Central American dictatorships. Said one observer: "The Emperor has no clothes, and the Empress has too many...
There were other stories that inspired heavy mail: 251 correspondents lamented the decline of quality rock music, 399 had opinions on mid-life pregnancies, and 357 commented on the Aug. 30 cover on fitness for women, "Coming On Strong: The New Ideal of Beauty." Said one lady jock: "Thanks for expressing so well what athletic women like me have known for a long time: exercise is the best makeup." But another reader was not convinced: "Can it be true that a pretty girl is like geometry...
...villagers of San Martino, the feast of San Lorenzo is the night when wishes come true. This night, Aug. 10, 1944, there is much to wish for and little hope of satisfaction. The German army is in retreat, dragging its dead across northern Italy. Gangs of Blackshirts, faithful to their Duce, are sweeping the countryside with kamikaze ferocity. The American G.I.s, tough-guy redeemers, may arrive tomorrow or never. So a score of the villagers leave San Martino to escape the carnage-and find what? What these ordinary people find in themselves surprises them: the fierce, fulfilling strength of solidarity...