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...proposed guidelines that limited wage increases to ?6 in 1975-76 and 4½% in 1976-77. But after last year, in which prices rose by 15%, workers decided they had had it; unions throughout Britain announced that they intended to seek gains of 20% to 100% beginning this autumn. For Callaghan, the unions' actions threatened a political crisis as well as an economic one: Liberal Party leaders warned that they would withdraw their crucial 13 votes in the House of Commons from the Labor government unless it effectively restrains wages. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey and union...
Technically, it begins next week. Actually, it began with the epic sigh of relief that could be sensed all over the U.S. right after Labor Day. Even before it arrives, Americans always manage to get into autumn. And no wonder. It is easily the most habitable season of the year...
...offense, but it looks like face-lift time for the Radcliffe tennis team this year, as both the coaching and personnel will show signs of change when the women in white take to the courts this autumn...
Middle East Muddle Carter's hopes that a Middle East peace conference would convene in Geneva this autumn, like his hopes for quick ratification of a Canal treaty, have gone aglimmering. For a time, the Administration thought the Palestine Liberation Organization was about to recognize Israel's right to exist. That notion was dashed last week at a meeting in Damascus of the P.L.O.'s 35-member central council, which castigated the U.S. for plotting with Israel rather than pressuring Jerusalem to support a Palestinian homeland. Repeated U.S. objections to Israeli settlements in the occupied territories have...
...glass and concrete Sava Corference Center outside Belgrade. Both looked as if they had just pulled off some master stroke of detente. As a matter of fact they had. After seven weeks of edgy deliberations to decide the date, duration agenda and procedures for a higher-level conference this autumn, following up the 1975 Helsinki accord, the envoys of 35 nations reached an agreement last week in a surprisingly conciliatory spirit...