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...Michael J. Smith's shift is over. He takes off his apron and hands it to Michael Smith, who works the early morning shift with Charles Drapeau. They have worked together for 16 years...
...Drapeau and Michael Smith, stacking burgers begind the counter, turn off the sound system. "Ladies and gentlemen, we're making an exception to the general rule," says Drapeau. "This will last five minutes." He turns back to the grill...
Congratulations to Olympics Organizer Peter Ueberroth for his sound management ideas [Oct. 17]. It is too bad Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau did not have such creative talent when he was host to the 1976 Olympics. I, my children and even my grandchildren will be paying for those Games for years to come...
What Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau envisioned as "modest Games," budgeted for $200 million, turned out to cost about $1.5 billion and left behind a deficit of $1 billion. Moscow spent $9 billion. Emboldened by its position as the only suitor, the Los Angeles committee proposed to cut a revolutionary deal with the I.O.C. The citizens of Los Angeles have amended the city charter to make sure taxpayers could not be charged for the Games. So the I.O.C. would just have to waive its fundamental rule of awarding the franchise to a city and instead hand it over to a board...
...Montreal. Strikes and stoppages have so slowed construction of a new 70,000-seat stadium and other Olympic facilities as to raise a question of whether they can be ready in time. Last week, while the International Olympic Committee, meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, received assurances from Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau that the games would be held on schedule, construction workers in Quebec and at the Olympic construction site struck yet again, this time mainly to protest a blunt, 603-page report on corruption and crime in four Quebec Federation of Labor unions. The Quebec government had already voted to replace...