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...Britain and my past 21 Stateside. But last week, I felt strangely as if I have lived in the same country all my life. In peril, the bonds deepen. I haven't forgotten how much I wept when the Queen ordered her guards to play The Star-Spangled Banner after 9/11; and last week, in the wake of London's bombings, New Yorkers were Londoners again. Rudy Giuliani was even on the scene...
...Community of Massachusetts (VACM) organized a Boston protest in Copley Square, right outside the Westin Copley Hotel, where Prime Minister Khai delivered a lunchtime address sponsored by Liberty Mutual. Most of the protestors were waving the yellow and red South Vietnamese flag—which is now the official banner of Boston’s Vietnamese population. They chanted in both Vietnamese and English...
...worker on the Yugo assembly line named Radoslav sees worker power at Red Banner differently. "We are producing a higher quality car than the others," he says, with a gesture toward assembly lines that make autos for the domestic market. "We should be getting paid more...
...BOALS permeate Yugoslavia's economic society, and are the Yugoslav equivalent of shareholders. They elect the workers' councils, like the one at Red Banner, that serve essentially as a factory's board of directors. Behind the democratic facade, of course, Communist Party control is ironclad. In theory, says a Western diplomat in Belgrade, the self-governing councils are "the purest form of Marxism." But in practice, "the trade union and the management are all controlled by the local party in every big plant...
...term Senator is still playing coy: "If it appears that we have a viable candidate who can fly the Reagan banner, I'll back him. If not, I'll look at the situation very carefully." In an interview with TIME last week, he admonished, "Now don't go making a candidate out of me." Would "passive availability" be a better way to put it? That, he chuckled, was a "very good description." He conceded that he is edging closer to a candidacy, though he will wait until after the fall elections. "Events of the last few weeks," he said, "have...