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University officials believe the strike's origins lay in communications problems between the unions and Harvard. Although union leaders agree that communication gaps exist, they see Harvard's practice of assigning workers to tasks outside their own craft as the key cause of the strike. The most controversial reassignment occurred when carpenters were asked to do painting jobs...
...Jewish leaders acknowledged privately that the plane deal will scarcely change the military balance of power in the Middle East, a view also expressed by Egyptian officials. Said one Egyptian political leader: "By the time we get the F-5E and have our pilots trained to use it, the craft will be obsolete. Meanwhile, Israel is getting F-15s and F-16s that it can use immediately. Who really won?" The Saudis will also receive F-15s, but a former top Egyptian official noted, "It will be another decade before Saudi pilots will be flying their F-15s effectively...
...Kaiser Aluminum plant in Gramercy, La., the company and the employees' union, the United Steel workers of America, agreed that half of those admitted to a craft job-training program would be minorities; separate seniority lists for minorities and whites were drawn up to screen program applicants. A white male applicant named Brian Weber sued for admission to the program claiming he had more seniority than many of the minority members accepted. Weber won his case in a 2-to-1 decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The judges denied a petition from Kaiser...
Much has been made of the fact that Cauthen was preparing for the jockey's craft at the age of twelve. His zeal was tireless: flailing bales of hay to practice his whip technique, huddling with his father over race films to decipher the art of moving a horse up in traffic or setting him down for the stretch run, crouching along the rail at the starting gate to learn how to navigate those first chaotic moments of a race. At 13, he was practicing yoga to develop his concentration?yoga at 13!?because he knew he would need...
...father-in-law's radio-manufacturing business. In late April, Marcus was allowed to walk to freedom into Swaziland from Mozambique, where he had been held since September 1976, when bad weather forced his private plane to land during a flight to South Africa. Mozambican troops surrounded the craft and opened fire, wounding Marcus and killing his brother-in-law. Although he has insisted that his flight was strictly for business purposes, diplomats in West Germany have speculated that Marcus might have been surveying Cuban and Soviet activity in Mozambique for the CIA and Israeli intelligence...