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...anxiety showed in the faces of the flight attendants last week as they checked the bulletin board in the Eastern Air Lines office at Miami International Airport. Posted was a list of the names of people losing their jobs. As part of a major cost-cutting program, the financially strapped airline had just announced that it would furlough 1,010 of its 7,200 flight attendants. Said Wilfred Tirado, seeing his name: "I have a $763 monthly mortgage and a two-month-old son. Now what am I going to do?" In other airports, 23,000 additional Eastern workers, including...
...mile out of town you turn on the radio. The bulletin's half over before you realize who it's about: "...star of Fool for Love, nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in The Right Stuff, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Buried Child and the Cannes Film Festival for Paris, Texas, a man who's been called by some the next Eugene O'Neill, by others the Hollywood heir apparent to the late actor James Dean, Sam Shepard, today, got his hair...
Cambridge officials have said that one channel will be used for education, another as a community bulletin board, and another for community news...
...denounced A.I.A. as "a bad idea." And last week Midge Decter, executive director of the conservative Committee for the Free World, described the organization's approach as "wrongheaded and harmful" and urged it to "shut down the operation before it goes any further." Writing in Contentions, her committee's bulletin, Decter argued that in the classroom, accuracy is not the issue. "There is no accurate way," she noted, "to teach the Federalist Papers . . . Bias is something that anyone with opinions can be accused of. How can a person be qualified to teach without opinions...
...message pinned to the bulletin board at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization by disgruntled staffers captured the general mood: "Enough is enough." One reason for the gloom: Britain last week affirmed that it will withdraw at year's end from the 160-member organization. Charging that UNESCO has become "harmfully politicized," Timothy Raison, Minister for Overseas Development, declared before the House of Commons: "We are determined that our support for the United Nations should be seen as support for effective and efficient organizations. Unfortunately, UNESCO is not such a body...