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...Alan L. Balsam of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union, Local 26, said yesterday that the size of the raise and the University's acceptance of a one-year contract were "significant victories for the union...
...Balsam said the agreement satisfied the union's two major demands, the raise and the one-year contract. He added that he felt the University had "backed down" because it was concerned that "failing to meet demands might result in some sort of strong reaction by the union...
...biological time bomb in Maine's north woods armed with a fuse set to explode it in a month. Awakened by the warming sun, billions of tiny spruce-budworm larvae will hatch and turn into ravenous caterpillars, ready to eat all the needles and buds on spruce and balsam fir, hemlock and tamarack. Before their appetite is sated, the budworms are expected to chew their way through some 6 million acres of conifers. For 3.5 million of those acres-an area larger than Connecticut-this will be the third straight year of defoliation, and even healthy trees cannot survive...
Trouble is, man's prospects for winning are not very bright. Ever since the use of DDT was banned in 1967, Maine has had few weapons in its battle against the budworm. Environmentalists have suggested gradually cutting down the spruce and balsam trees to deny the caterpillar its food and replacing them with hardwood varieties immune to attack. But that plan is not practical; spruce and balsam are best adapted to the north woods and, says Fred Holt, director of Maine's bureau of forestry, "they always come back when you plant something else." Biological controls-most notably...
...Alan Balsam, the union's shop steward in the College dining halls, said yesterday the union will announce its negotiating committee next month and then start negotiations...