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Seymour Fisher, Ph.D. The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas
...British public. In Brighton, where the most seriously injured victims of the blast remained under police guard, detectives were following up clues, and bomb experts were sifting through the ruins of the Grand Hotel. Their efforts yielded what Commander Bill Hucklesby, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch, called "significant items." Police theorize that the bomb, possibly wrapped in plastic to hide its odor from police dogs, was planted behind a panel in a bathroom of the hotel by I.R.A. "sleeper agents" long resident in England. The device was apparently detonated by a sophisticated microchip timer that could have...
Last week that close partnership came undone. Even as the United Automobile Workers union was celebrating the successful end of contract negotiations with the Ford Motor Co. and the ratification of another agreement with General Motors, its Canadian branch went on strike against GM. Blue-and-white picket signs went up in front of the Windsor transmission plant, just a short drive from GM's Detroit headquarters, as workers shut down all 13 Canadian GM plants...
Even so, GM may have little time to celebrate. The Canadian branch of the U.A.W. has turned down a contract similar to the U.S agreement. Unless the company sweetens its offer, 36,000 workers may strike this week at GM's nine Canadian factories...
...Damon A. Silver '86, chairman of the Harvard branch of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), said that "a significant number of people are going to be angry and bitter and active" if Reagan gets reelected. At the same time, a victory for Mondale--whom DSA supports--could make "people say, 'Great. Now I can go back to playing football'" and turn away from activism...