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Kung Fu relies on using an opponent's strength against him. About 20 people now belong to the club, Crane said...
More immediately, Chrysler faces the threat of a strike by about 50,000 of its salaried and hourly employees who belong to the United Auto Workers. U.A.W. negotiators two weeks ago agreed to a new contract that gives Chrysler workers some $2 per hour less in wages and benefits than are received by employees at either General Motors or Ford. Ratification voting by the union's rank and file is expected to be completed this week, and industry analysts rate the outcome a tossup...
...wasn't very surprising when Koch endorsed Reagan for president and not Jimmy Carter, nor was it a shock when Reagan supported Koch's campaign for governor. The two men are political kinsmen, even though they belong to different parties. So the president, and the rest of the nation as well, would do well to look at the quality of life in New York and think about why Koch was dumped by his own city when he sought higher office. New Yorkers seem to have realized that cutting essential services to finance incentives for a few corporations...
...thing to contemplate is that these bizarre constructions are the handiwork of the society to which they stand as outcasts. Monstrous as they may appear, they belong to the recognizable world of a civilization's institutions, just as the men and women they house, no matter what they have done, belong to the world of those they violated. These people are presented here, flat against the page, as if they were separated entirely from those who observe them. But it is chastening to realize that the life they lead is no less real to them than life...
...troops who landed at Beirut's port at dawn on Saturday belong to one of the most decorated units in the French army: the Foreign Legion's Deuxième REP (Second Foreign Parachute Regiment), whose history goes back to 1948, when, as the Second Foreign Parachute Battalion, it was sent to Cambodia to maintain internal security. In 1954, as Viet Minh guerrillas tightened their siege of the French base at Dien Bien Phu, 700 members of the battalion were dropped into the camp at night as last-minute reinforcements. Although the French were eventually defeated, the legionnaires...