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...Finnair ad, seeking to convince Americans that "great vacations start with flying Finnish," featured a fanciful headline about the invention of the sauna by a Finn who discovered that his wife "loved" being locked in a smokehouse and beaten with birch leaves. Lawyer Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, conceded in a letter to Finnair North American General Manager Leif Lundstrom that the airline had intended only to be funny-but added that wife beating was no laughing matter, either in Finland or the U.S. If Finnair did not drop the ad, said DeCrow, "we women...
...Senators were impressed. Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who heads the intelligence committee, pointed out that its report was based on "largely secondhand" evidence. Treaty proponents argued irrefutably that the drug-trafficking allegations were irrelevant to the question of whether the canal pact was desirable. Said California's Alan Cranston, the majority whip: "There was no smoking gun found in Torrijos' hand, and besides, he's not going to be around in the year 2000." Even Alabama Democrat James Allen, a leading opponent of the treaties, concluded that the drug debate had been pointless. Said he: "I don't think...
...Isle of Man, a British crown possession in the Irish Sea, differs from the mother country in several respects. Taxes are lower, cats have no tails, and youths judged guilty of violent crimes are occasionally whipped with a birch...
...limit seniority rights and diminish the authority of Local 366 of the brewery workers union over its 1,472 members. But the union quickly turned the dispute into an ideological confrontation with Chairman William Coors, 61, and his brother Joseph, 60, a well-known backer of the John Birch Society and other right-wing causes. The union's allies are particularly upset by the firm's practice of using lie-detector tests to probe into the lives of job applicants, and claim that Coors discriminates against minorities...
...alpine valley of unparalleled beauty, a spruce-and-birch wilderness without roads or ski lifts or other signs of human intrusion. Only the howl of the wind-or of an occasional wolf-now disturbs the silence. But man is on the way. Last week the Alaska capital site planning commission chose the design of a new state capital to rise in the valley. Unless opponents of the plan develop unexpected new strength, this idyllic subarctic landscape will become a kind of Brasilia of the North-though hardly as monumental as its Latin counterpart and far more in harmony with...