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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police administration and the union representing Harvard's police officers has thus far been a cautious but discouragingly slow treatment of a pressing question. Although the Harvard Police Association's dissatisfaction with the reorganization efforts of David L. Gorski, chief of University Police, has occupied center stage since contract negotiations between the two sides began last January, efforts to resolve the question have produced little progress. In the meantime, the 40 Harvard police officers who have been working without a contract since January 1 have not been able to advance their claims for increased salary and benefits...
...force and refusing to hire new replacements. The University has replied that there is "a danger of overstating the importance" of the morale question, and has stated that it hopes to solve the reorganization question without interfering with the issues of salary and benefits involved in the contract talks...
...year director of defense research, Malcolm Currie got six-figure job offers from three aerospace companies. He decided to go to Culver City, Calif., as a $180,000-a-year vice president in charge of Hughes Aircraft's guided-missiles projects. They include a $150 million contract to adapt the French-West German Roland antiaircraft missile for use by U.S. forces, that was awarded while Currie was in the Pentagon...
...collective-bargaining calendar, which involves 5 million workers in such key industries as steel, aerospace, communications and coal mining. The consensus is that 1977 wage settlements could be hefty-at least as large as last year's average 8.3% increase for the first year of a contract. Moreover, greater emphasis than ever will be placed on job security...
...plans an audacious variation of news practice in its expensive new contract with Henry Kissinger. Not only does it plan to use him, as CBS and ABC proposed to do in their spirited bidding for his services, as an interview subject discussing his memoirs when they are published. It wants to put him on an annual foreign-news documentary, and to use him on big breaking stories, being cross-questioned by John Chancellor and David Brinkley on the nightly news. In a way, this is to put the fox among the hens. It is to mix together presumably disinterested commentators...