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...simultaneous and similarly large worker protests occurred at the Daqing oil fields, which schoolchildren still study as the pinnacle of Chinese engineering and Maoist cradle-to-grave security. In both spots, workers were peeved, genuinely needy of some economic relief?and, most surprising, organized. Workers from one factory, Liaoyang Ferro-Alloys Plant, had tried demonstrating last October against the closure of their factory but accomplished nothing. So they reached out to other workers. According to labor activists, leaders from the plant brought together workers from five other factories for protests that began March 11. That day, 5,000 people gathered...
...unlucky position of having to persuade the Portuguese to instal another Socialist Prime Minister is Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, sometimes called Mr. Minimum Wage for having introduced one under Guterres. He and Durão Barroso faced off in a TV debate last week, continually talking over each other and not saying where they would rein in spending. This despite a manifesto calling for just that clarity - plus a long list of fiscal reforms - signed by eight prominent Portuguese, economists and a lawyer, of varying political persuasions. The lawyer, Vasco Vieira de Almeida, insisted after the debate that "quick action...
...more than 40 people, including Acteal's mayor, Jacinto Arias Cruz, behind bars for their involvement in the massacre. Some of the accused killers reportedly have ties to local and state police. Much of the Mexican public was calling for the resignation of Chiapas Governor Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro, who showed no signs of complying. By Saturday, though, the crisis had claimed interior minister Emilio Chuayffet, who resigned amid charges that he had ignored the death squads. He was replaced by agricultural minister Francisco Labastida...
...immigrant, like Soros, I understand his reaction to the government's reduction of programs aiding legal immigrants. People from abroad are the pride and strength of this great country. God bless Soros! We are all immigrants. JOAQUIM G.M. FERRO Hudson, Mass...
Less somber, but still a fog-shrouded mystery of the sea, is why it is hard to love even the sleekest boat made of fiber glass, or sheet steel, or sprayed ferro-concrete. And why, if you like boats at all, it is hard not to love even a squat, stumpy and probably leaky boat made of wood. Two amiable new books about the perilous beguilement of wood boats are Sea Change, by Peter Nichols (Viking; 238 pages; $23.95) and Sailing in a Spoonful of Water, by Joe Coomer (Picador; 256 pages...