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What is so fundamentally disturbing about the Reagan Administration is that it is the present embodiment of the American Dream. Doonesbury's Duane Delacourt, in charge of symbolism for Carter and Brown, was a parody of the symbols the Left still has to offer--tired repetitions of the idea that politics could be groovy as well as homespun. But what Reagan has done--and it must be seen as some kind of bizarre triumph--has been to reclaim the remnants of the symbolism of the right: the we're-the-really-good-guys syndrome that descends directly from Jefferson...
Even some labor leaders agree that the problem is serious. "Generally speaking, our industrial relations are almost unbelievably bad," says Lord Delacourt-Smith, general secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union. One key reason is that British unions operate in a legal near-vacuum. They are not bound by agreements they sign, are not liable for authorized acts of their officials. Industry-wide bargaining is al most nonexistent, and there are no provisions for cooling-off periods or court injunctions to stall outrageous strikes. Still, the Royal Commission, which was headed by 70-year-old Lord Donovan, a former leader...
...claim that to ... sell our merchandise to belligerents would be to risk making entangling alliances is to surrender our manhood to insensate panic, betray the cause of liberty and brand ourselves as a nation of cowards. DELACOURT KELL...
...DELACOURT KELL...
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