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...called upon to ditch...
There, three other newsmen joined to help carry the man back to the rear. Just as the newsmen picked up the dying Marine, an enemy mortar round landed a few yards from them, blowing them into a ditch. Shrapnel hit Greenway in the left leg. He was taken out of Hué in a helicopter and treated at the U.S. military hospital...
Compulsory arbitration is now being suggested in some quarters as a last-ditch solution. Both management and labor are generally against it in the private sector, on the grounds that it undermines the collective-bargaining process. For the public sector, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has suggested what he calls "voluntary arbitration"-the intercession of an informed and mutually acceptable third party to engineer a settlement. One difficulty here is the genuine doubt that representative government, which receives its mandate from the public, can legally bind itself to an outside judgment...
Irrigation Ditch. Aside from the grief over the dozen or so casualties, no one seemed overly distressed by the new impasse. Though their battered economy is losing $5,000,000 a week in tolls, the Egyptians do not really seem all that anxious to open the canal, apparently hoping that as long as it remains closed the maritime nations will put pressure on Israel to withdraw from its east bank. The Israelis, on the other hand, have no intention of letting the canal open so long as they are denied its use. As for the U.S., it seems quite content...
...absence of dredging operations since June that five feet of navigable depth have already been lost. "If the canal stays closed another year," said an American engineer in Beirut last week, "it will be in such bad shape that they might as well turn it into an irrigation ditch and plant potatoes around it." Even the Egyptians seemed to be looking for alternatives: off to London last week went an official delegation to discuss construction of a 42-in. pipeline along the canal to carry 50 million tons of oil a year from Suez at the southern end to Port...