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...make those mistakes? I asked. After the revolution, Hu replied, it proved more difficult to establish socialism than it had been to overthrow the old regime. Differences between the leadership grew. The old brotherhood began to split with collectivization in 1958 ? a disaster. "Mao knew he had been wrong in the Great Leap Forward," said Hu Qiaomu. But when Peng Dehuai circulated a critical letter, Hu went on, he "was scraping at a wound which, left to itself, might heal. To scrape a man with a healing wound rouses all his irritations, angers...
...orbiting crew. Reagan, whose budget and hiring policies have drawn sharp criticism from black leaders, included a special message of congratulations for Bluford. Said the President: "You, I think, are paving the way for many others, and you are making it plain we are in an era of brotherhood here in our land." It was Commander Truly who thanked Reagan on behalf of all the crew members. Said Truly: "We appreciate your taking time to call us, and we're very pleased and proud to be here...
...three striking unions, the Communications Workers of America, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the far smaller Telecommunications International Union, won a modest first-year maximum 5.5% wage increase vs. the 2.7% offered originally by American Telephone & Telegraph. That would mean $26.13 a week for the highest-paid, most experienced workers. With cost of living increases plus another 1.5% wage hike during the contract's second and third years, the union calculates that workers would get total pay raises of 16.4%. Formal ratification by the workers is expected in early October...
...delay in answering your call. Will you please try again later?" The operators were on strike against AT&T, as were phone installers, maintenance workers and repairmen. In the first nationwide telephone walkout since 1971, some 675,000 members of three unions (Communications Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Telecommunications International Union) were demanding higher pay and greater job security...
From where does the idea of a world of likes come? In part from a belief in universal brotherhood (a belief that is parodied, however, when one pretends that the ideal already exists). In part from a trendy ecological pantheism with its misty notions of the oneness of those sharing this lonely planet. In part from the Enlightenment belief in a universal human nature, a slippery modern creation that for all its universality manages in every age to take on a decidedly middle-class look. For the mirror-image fantasy derives above all from the coziness of middle-class life...