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...five defendants, Teri Volpin, has already served seven weeks of an eight-week contempt sentence. Others in the group have served from two to four weeks. Volpin will probably be called to testify again when her present sentence ends...
...factory control, reductions in their price markups, and the "dumping" of unwanted cars on their sales lots. Discontented customers demanded more reliability and easier repair-at a time when management found it increasingly hard to maintain quality output in their plants, in great part because of worker unrest. The eight-week strike against General Motors made a weak year even worse. In 1970 the U.S. is expected to produce 6,550,000 cars, down from 8,219,000 last year...
...Cambodia suddenly became an intolerable threat to a reduced American presence in Viet Nam remains a mystery. How the destruction of antiaircraft installations in North Viet Nam will ensure the safety of departing U.S. troops is clearly open to critical debate. What is to be gained from a sixto eight-week "defensive" probe across the Cambodian border is at best fuzzy speculation, and miserably incapable of justifying the immediate cost in American lives and the potential costs of an Indochina...
...typify the many Negroes for whom the dream of starting their own business has soured. They had talked of opening a clothing store when they were university students and kept discussing it while Willis worked as a beer salesman and Dural as a mailman. Last year they took an eight-week course in retailing run by New Orleans department stores, pooled $3,000 of savings with a $20,000 loan from the Small Business Administration and set up shop on Dryades Street, the main drag of the New Orleans ghetto. Blacks had boycotted white merchants on Dryades Street some years...
During the fighting, the South Vietnamese ran their own supply line and conducted the evacuation of their wounded by air-tasks that Americans would have been performing only a few months ago. The count of American casualties in the eight-week engagement reflected the reduced American role: 24 killed and 86 wounded...