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...motorboats. As in the American frontier a century ago, fortunes are being made almost overnight in Iraq, and with the same lack of control. As Saghair hoists a load of fruit from the bottom of the hold, a coconut falls out of the lifting net, narrowly missing a docker's head. What safety procedures are in place at the port? he is asked. He smiles again: "There is no law here...
...safe prediction is that bloc politics will continue, on both sides of the old Iron Curtain. Western Europe will continue on its present track: toward a fairly sophisticated economic federation, but probably well short of a situation in which a Liverpool docker, say, or a Turin auto worker would actually have to ponder, as he steps into a voting booth, whether Willy Brandt would indeed make a good President of Europe...
...contract provides for $2.51 an hour in higher wages and fringe benefits, including dental care, paid prescription drugs, overtime pay for working more than six hours a day and 36 hours of guaranteed pay a week-even if there is no work to do. In all, a West Coast docker could be making an extra $100 a week in wages and fringes by the end of the contract...
England's Princess Anne, 20, took in the flicks with a new date-Sam Shepherd, 19, ex-furrier's apprentice, son of a docker and star of a low-budget film called Bronco Bullfrog. To protest his movie's removal from a London theater to make room for the premiere of Laurence Olivier's version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Sam had dropped Anne a line, asking her to see it with him. While waiting for her at the cinema, Sam fortified himself at the next-door pub with two pints of bitter...
...solid, punchy beat of West Indian blues. Skinheads don't bovver with the West Indians, probably because they are tough. Pakistanis are a favorite target because they seem passive, weak and, above all, different. "They smell, don't they?" says the son of a London docker. "It's all that garlic. I mean, they've no right to be here." One skinhead described the "Paki-bashing" technique to a British television interviewer: "You go up to them and bump into them, and then you nut them right, and then you hit them, and as they...