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...award, sponsored by Norwegian newspapers and civic groups as a grass-roots parallel to this year's Nobel Peace Prize,* drew an outpouring of $324,000 in donations from Norway and around the world. Her voice trembling, Williams announced that the money would go to a children's center in Belfast's gutted slums. "When I look at sound and happy Norwegian children," she told the audience, "I think of the boys and girls of Northern Ireland, children used to war, to nerve medicine and sleeping pills, and I ask: 'God, forgive us for what...
...groups of old people on how to survive in the city (e.g., don't go home if you think you're being followed-find a cop). In addition, the police have created a few "safe corridors" for the elderly: thoroughfares in shopping districts that are heavily patrolled. Civic-minded youths, mostly high school students, have helped further by volunteering to escort old people to stores and social clubs...
Traveling in three columns, Syrian tanks moved down to the city's battered port and financial district, bulldozing roadblocks as they rolled. The Syrian troops-the bulwark of what will eventually become a 30,000-man multinational peace-keeping force-also moved swiftly to restore civic order. Two attempted kidnapings were broken up and ten looters stealing the last furnishings from the once luxurious Phoenicia Inter-Continental Hotel were arrested...
Union leaders are wary of guidelines because they believe wages are monitored more closely than prices. "We are very, very leary," says AFL-CIO President George Meany. "Our experience has been that the employer becomes very civic-minded, very patriotic and says, 'No, I can't give you any more than a certain percentage.' " Moreover, when there are no guidelines, manufacturers are able to set high prices and union leaders are freer to strike for hefty settlements without arousing a public outcry or getting into an argument with the President. Without the Ford Administration committing itself...
There is a tendency to think of leadership only in terms of powerful public positions. Yet, as Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan said: "All through our society, in civic groups, clubs, churches, neighborhood associations, unions," there are many who may not be leaders in their jobs but who during "the rest of their time [exercise] a certain kind of leadership respected by neighbors, friends or other members of the community. You get a more intelligent, responsible followership if the followers themselves have experience with leadership...