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...strike was widespread and militant from the start. In Boston, 14 striking New England Telephone workers were arrested for blocking the company's repair trucks. Customers in New York, New Jersey and California lost service when phone lines were sabotaged. In Van Nuys, Calif., two striking Pacific Bell employees suffered injuries when they were bumped by cars crossing the picket lines. The drivers "got angry because we called them scabs," claimed Marisa Rotondi, a shop steward for the local union. "Things are starting to get pretty bad out here...
Nearly 160,000 telephone operators, installers and repair workers in 15 states launched strikes last week against three regional U.S. telephone companies: Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and Pacific Telesis. While direct-dial calls in the affected regions were handled smoothly by automatic switching equipment, customers encountered delays in getting directory assistance, repair service and phone installation...
...service, companies have negotiated favorable rates for their employees at certain hospitals and health-maintenance organizations. To reduce outlays further, more than 70% of companies require employees to pay at least some of the costs of insuring themselves and their families; only 51% did so in 1984. Negotiators for Bell Atlantic want the company's employees, who currently pay a $150 deductible for nonhospital medical care, to take on a $150 deductible for hospitalization and an additional $200 deductible for any treatment outside a prescribed network of doctors and hospitals. "The whole idea is to make consumers thoughtful buyers...
...precision, "a pace behind her, old chap, a pace behind her." He is mainly visible as the gracious host while his wife conducts affairs of state. At 74, < he seems eminently fit for the job: the back is still ramrod straight, the step springy, the mind clear as a bell. What keeps him in such excellent fettle? "Cigarettes and gin," chuckles Denis...
...Blackfeet Indians. In its halcyon days, which lasted a quarter- century, the post dominated the upper Missouri from behind an elegant, whitewashed palisade. Annual steamboats brought artists and ethnologists. The bourgeois, or superintendent, maintained a splendid table, and French wine flowed in an imposing residence topped with a bell tower. With its bastions of stone and 63-ft. flagpole aflutter with Old Glory, Fort Union conveyed a flashy, mercantile style and substance until smallpox twice struck the Indians and homesteaders encroached on their lands, eclipsing the trade. By 1866 the once proud post had lapsed into disrepair...