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EARLIER THIS MONTH A FELLOW NAMED SAM YOUNG was fired from his grocery-store job for wearing a Green Bay Packers T shirt. All right, this was Dallas, and it was a little insensitive to flaunt the enemy team's logo on the weekend of the N.F.C. championship game, but Young was making the common assumption that if you stay away from obscenity, libel or, perhaps in this case, the subject of groceries, it is a free country, isn't it? Only problem was he had not read the First Amendment carefully enough: it says government cannot abridge freedom...
...reasonable restrictions on an employee's freedom of speech. A switchboard operator should not break into Tourette's-like torrents of profanity; likewise, professors probably should be discouraged from screaming at students or presenting their loopier notions as historical fact. But it's hard to see how a Green Bay Packers T shirt could interfere with the stocking of Pop-Tarts or how a union sticker would slow the tightening of a tractor's axle. When employers are free to make arbitrary and humiliating restrictions, we're saying democracy ends, and dictatorship begins, at the factory gate...
...even in the summer, when one can combine listening to music with watching the sun set over the bay, the Summer Pops tables are rarely full. When they are, it is for "The Pops Goes to the Movies" rather than "The Pops Muses Upon Mozart" or "The Pops Goes Gershwin...
TODAYTOMORROW Pittsburgh at Detroit, 3 p.m. Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 3 p.m. Philadelphia at St. Louis, 3 p.m. Vancouver at Winnipeg, 3 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Colorado, 3 p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Chicago at San Jose, 3 p.m. Chicago at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Florida at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. Buffalo at Boston, 3 p.m. New Jersey at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Wash., 7:30 p.m. Montreal at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. L. Angeles at Calgary...
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA: 127 men and women, the last of the 29,000 Cuban refugees who had lived in tents at the American base in Guantanamo Bay, boarded a plane for Florida today. The refugees were picked up at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard as they floated on rafts, small boats and inner tubes toward the American coast in the summer of 1994. "The importantant thing about the exodus that summer is that Castro allowed it to happen," reports Caribbean bureau chief Cathy Booth. "If he did not, then no one would have been able to come...