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...Glenna Brink Modesto, Calif...
...working and retired members of the U.M.W. prepare to vote next week. Yet the election could not be more pivotal. With its leadership preoccupied by bitter intramural power struggles and its membership caught up in a seemingly endless series of wildcat strikes, the U.M.W. has reached the brink of disintegration-just when President Carter's energy policy calls for a two-thirds increase in coal production by 1985. If the election fails to produce peace and competent leadership for the mine workers, the forthcoming coal boom could well bust the union. Companies will either start negotiating contracts...
...Government abandoned all expectations of obtaining cooperation from the Russians-even in balming the wounds of war let alone in fashioning a new world order. In Asia, China was on the verge of falling to Mao. Of most concern to Americans, however, was Europe, which teetered on the brink of a general economic collapse that seemed beyond the capacity of her ever divided nations to forestall...
...controls the Aegean? Homer's wine-dark sea is dotted with 3,049 Greek islands, some of which are only a few miles from Turkey's shores. Two years ago, the U.S. was able to mediate successfully between the two NATO partners when they approached the brink of war in a territorial dispute. Greece hinted it might extend territorial waters from six to twelve miles around each island; the Turks warned Washington that that would be a fighting matter, and the Greeks dropped the idea. With both sides now so angry, the U.S. may not be able...
...Canada on the brink of civil war? To say so would be an exaggeration, although hostilities have already developed between the federal and provincial levels. Jacques Y. Morin, Quebec Education Minister and Marcel Leger, Quebec Environment Minister, recently startled international conferences by stating that they spoke for Quebec, not Canada. Trudeau responded with a threat to ban Quebec representatives from future international conferences if such situations recurred...