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Callaghan's new concordat replaces the three-year-old so-called social contract under which the T.U.C. had agreed to temper wage demands to tamp down Britain's virulent inflation. Now that the rate has been hammered down to about 9%, a third of what it was in 1975, the restless unions are less inclined to show restraint. And indeed, instead of a firm wage lid, Callaghan's new pact contains only some vague appeals...
...pact is aimed at increasing the national output by 3% while simultaneously reducing inflation to under 5% by 1982. The government, the unions and management are supposed to achieve this by conducting a joint annual review of economic conditions to help keep wage settlements within realistic bounds. The concordat would do little to curb the union tactic that galls Britons most: secondary picketing. This is what the country's 80,000 striking truck drivers used to shut down factories all over the country while they negotiated their guideline-busting 21% pay hike last month. Though a recent poll showed...
...asked, How do you produce statues that are so full of life? He responded: The marble already contains the statues; it is just a matter of extracting them. Like marble, children are rough material: you can extract gentlemen, heroes, even saints." Last year Luciani publicly opposed the proposed new concordat between the Vatican and Italy because it would remove compulsory religion classes from public schools: "By decapitating religious culture, will we not decapitate culture as well...
...Domitilla, St. Callistus, St. Sebastian-these are among the early Christians whose shrines attract thousands of pilgrims to the catacombs underneath Rome. The 1929 Concordat that established Vatican rule over these ancient burial grounds also gave the Roman Catholic Church control of two other catacombs in which it had little interest. These, several centuries older than the Christian sites, contained the graves of more than 100,000 of the Jews who had migrated to the ancient capital after the 1st century B.C. And so the crypts were sealed off and left in darkness...
...under a new Concordat being worked out by the Italian government and the Vatican, the Jewish catacombs will soon be turned over to Italy's Jewish community, which will eventually open them to visitors. "We have long wanted them placed under our Jewish communities because they represent an extremely important period of Jewish history," says Rome's chief rabbi, Elio Toaff, "a transition period when Christianity was evolving out of Judaism...