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...poor. Chicago, Minneapolis and New York City are teeming with construction sites. Orlando's international airport will add a new $3 million terminal; Louisiana will open a $700 million offshore oil port. So go the examples, which are plentiful. Pretty heady stuff for a nation that some contend has lost its self-assurance...
More than likely, the cuts in Sunday service will be restored; indeed, some politicians contend that the whole plan is merely a show to divert attention from other painful cutbacks in service. Some, already announced but largely ignored in the furor over Sunday service, include station closings, reduced bus service, and commuter rail cutbacks. While these cuts are not as drastic as the Sunday stoppage, they must not be allowed either. In a country as starved for energy as the United States, mass transit represents the best chance of cutting automobile...
...strike moratorium could get a severe test next week, when the Polish Supreme Court is expected to decide whether private farmers can form an independent union. So far the authorities have resisted, arguing that the farmers are self-employed and thus cannot bargain as employees. The farmers contend that they are in effect state employees, since the government sets their prices. At a meeting last week, they warned of a possible strike if their union is not recognized. It was not a threat the authorities could take lightly, since private farmers own 75% of Poland's agricultural land...
...many of Fraser's units have had to contend with Harvard's arsenal of attorneys, but for now at least, union organizers are optimistic...
...students, instead of helping to cleanse the moral atmosphere that their racist fellows have polluted, join in the demand for a Black retreat. A typical exercise in White bourgeois scapegoating and self-service. Next you will support a Harvard Black Crimson. No wonder Malcolm x thought the had to contend with devils...