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...there, fearing Tutsi reprisals, might flee to the already-deluged refugee camps in neighboring Zaire. The U.N. officials cited scattered reports of apparent revenge killings by Tutsi officials, even though the new government has pledged to take no revenge for Hutu massacres of at least half a million Tutsi brethren during Rwanda's three-month civil war. Meanwhile, the defeated Hutu leadership -- criticized for intimidating fellow Hutus who wished to return home from Zaire -- was removed today to a separate border camp...
...recent exodus was spurred by unrest in Havana Friday. TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth says Castro, frustrated by tension during one of the Cuban economy's worst months, may let the malcontents go. In Miami, she adds, Cuban exiles went on the radio to urge their island brethren to stay put. "They don't want another Mariel," Booth says of the 1980 incident in which 125,000 Cubans fled to the U.S. "It's a safety valve -- he lets those who are angry and frustrated get out. It will allow Fidel to rule for another 10 to 20 years...
...most innovative step is for U.S. unions to seek aid from their labor brethren overseas when facing companies with international operations. Balked at organizing a Polyfelt plant in Evergreen, Alabama, the ACTWU appealed for help to Austrian unions -- some of whose leaders sat on the Supervisory Board of Polyfelt's parent company, OMV. The European unionists got the company to order its U.S. managers to tone down antiunion activities, and the ACTWU won a contract at the Alabama plant last month...
...news last week that the London police would begin packing heat may have been a bit overplayed. Some will. But bobbies on the beat will remain without guns, leaving them comparatively defenseless next to their well-armed foreign brethren...
...some earlier eras, Breyer might have hoped to inject himself quickly into the life of the court by taking sides in one of the wars of strong personalities that have occasionally riven it. In their 1979 Supreme Court tell-all, The Brethren, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong wrote that when William O. Douglas, who had recently had a stroke, was asked how he could decide cases when he couldn't read, Douglas replied, "I'll see how the votes and vote the other way." Today, though Antonin Scalia takes sarcastic digs at his colleagues in his opinions, the personal rancor...