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...other city news, Charles R. Nesson, professor of Law, and other lawyers representing a group of Cambridge tenants, failed yesterday for the second time to get a restraining order to curtail the granting of rent increase adjustments...
...working days lost in British industry may exceed the total of 10,970,000 for all of last year. That would be the worst record since the great General Strike of 1926. Last week a one-day protest strike against Heath's proposed Industrial Relations Bill-designed to curtail wildcat strikes by making union contracts legally binding-involved more than 1,200,000 workers. Another such walkout is planned for next week...
...same 111-in. wheelbase chassis as Chevy's compact Nova. Ford introduced a second model of its front-running Pinto subcompact, a "runabout" that has an upward-opening rear door much like the Vega's or Gremlin's. Increased supplies of the Vega may help to curtail sales of imports too; Chevy still has not reached its goal of building 1,600 Vegas a day, but hopes to do so in late March or early April...
...violence at this time, when Ulster's Protestant-dominated government has begun to move toward meeting the legitimate demands of the Catholics? The militants apparently have three objectives: 1) to curtail the frequent Protestant demonstrations and, particularly, to alter official plans for this year's "Ulster '71" celebration, marking the 50th anniversary of Ireland's partition; 2) to provoke the army into overreacting against Catholic rioters, particularly children, in order to win over Catholic moderates who have been increasingly alienated by the militants' bloody tactics; and 3) to prod the populace into a general uprising...
...apparent failure of the U.S. bombing raids to cut the Communist supply lines produced the necessity for this week's ground invasion of the region. It is not clear, however, how a brief Allied strike into Laos will curtail troop and supply movements for any length of time...