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...when the old contract was to have lapsed. Last week's deal supersedes that one, and it will run through July 1986. The reduction in hourly pay becomes effective immediately. But it will be restored in increments in 1984, 1985 and 1986. That did not appease everyone. Said Fran Rattigan, 46, a structural steelworker at U.S. Steel's giant Homestead works in Pennsylvania: "If we have to take a cut, everybody else should make concessions - doctors, lawyers, dentists, Congressmen, Senators, even Presidents...
...thought we were making a comeback with six minutes left," Crimson coach Fran McLaughlin said after the game. "Then they got three...
There was nothing modest about the idea, and when the 350 cultural superstars finally left Paris last week after a glittering two-day conference on Creation and Development, it was clear that there had been nothing modest about their deliberations. Lodged in luxury hotels at the expense of François Mitterrand's Socialist government, the high-powered conventioneers gathered in the Sorbonne's venerable amphitheater to ponder their curious subject: cultural solutions to the world's economic crisis...
...joined in an exuberant celebration that banged on from 8:30 p.m. until well past midnight. Lang has filled the once empty courtyard of Paris' staid Louvre museum with exhibitions of new French fashions, displayed to the thump of disco rhythms. A troupe from the Comédie Française has played in the Paris subways. Still to come are an ambitious new "people's" opera house for the Place de la Bastille, a new ballet school for Marseille and a dance conservatory for Lyon. And, seemingly everywhere, there is Lang himself: listening to the raucous...
...politicians, has been furiously campaigning for the municipal elections that will be held on March 6 and 13. The vote is a local affair to choose councilmen and mayors for the country's 36,400 municipalities, but it has assumed the dimensions of a national referendum on President François Mitterrand's 21-month-old Socialist experiment. The Socialists and their Communist allies in the government are expected to lose anywhere from ten to 40 of the 154 municipalities they control among France's 219 cities with populations of more than...