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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What flushed Mrs. Exner into public view was the Senate Intelligence Committee. As part of its CIA probe, the committee investigated Roselli's and Giancana's other federal connection: their contract with the CIA to assassinate Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro...
...lines were drawn last week for a possibly fateful labor struggle at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Since he was appointed executive director a year ago, Anthony A. Bliss, 62, has been negotiating with the 14 artistic and craft unions at the Met over new contracts. All have been performing since the summer under contract extensions that expire on New Year's Day. The musicians now say they will not agree to another extension but will withdraw their services...
...cannot, of course, cut his work force by 10% or more, as New York City has done. A major orchestra operates at full strength or not at all. Bliss's latest proposal called for seven weeks' less work and a two-year contract offering no raise in salary the first year and a 5% increase the second year. With that offer, Local 802 began thinking strike...
...with the rising cost of living. The Met orchestra is an excellent, overworked ensemble that is highly conscious of its standing. A cut in annual income would be a humiliation that no comparable orchestra has yet had to accept. Worse, recent contract settlements in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., gained musicians pay raises of $95 over three years, although the first two were achieved only after costly strikes. The current weekly minimum salary for Met musicians is $385, about the same as at the New York Philharmonic. But with the proposed 44-week year, a Met player would make...
Second Ballot. The hostesses rejected the contract, partly to assert their independence from the male-dominated pilots' union. In response to the airline's petition, Federal Judge C. Clyde Atkins last week ordered the stewardesses to vote again on the pact. He specifically enjoined the hostesses' leaders, who were accused of sabotaging the first balloting, from campaigning for rejection. Even so, the outcome may be close. Having been angered for years by National's "sexist" advertising ("I'm Barbara. Fly me."), the hostesses seem determined to strike National like it has never been struck before...