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...treaty. Indeed the agreement's provisions are numerous and complicated: guarantees for freedom of passage on the high seas, recognition of the twelve-mile territorial limit and 200-mile "exclusive economic zone" for coastal nations, safeguards against pollution and, perhaps most important, establishment of an international body to govern the mining of seabed mineral resources. Yet some U.N. observers note that the Reaganauts, are deeply suspicious of both the U.N., which they feel is dominated by anti-U.S. elements, and of Elliot Richardson, the liberal Republican who led the first U.S. Law of the Sea delegation...
...project teams. At Hewlett-Packard, worker turn over has been kept to a minimum during economic slumps by reducing the work hours for all employees and by cutting back on perquisites. In many of its plants, consumer products giant Procter & Gamble uses semiautonomous work groups that allow employees to govern their own jobs and achieve gains in productivity. The Buick assembly plant in Flint, Mich., which once had very low quality workmanship, used the Theory Z approach in 1978 to gain the co operation of workers and their union. Within two years, the plant had be come the most efficient...
Even before the battle was joined, the President began thinking ahead to further economic moves. He named an advisory board of twelve prominent non-Govern ment economists, headed by former Trea sury Secretary George Shultz, that will meet with him every three or four months to take stock of how the struggle against inflation and unemployment is going. In talks to Governors, state legislators and county executives, Reagan began urging a futuristic program to transfer all administration and funding of entire categories of Government programs, such as education and welfare, from Washington to states and localities - an idea that would...
...steady weakening of the political parties, combined with the steady growth of television as the prime mediator between the voters and the Government, means that the primary campaign now emphasizes the wrong issues and the wrong qualities. What is needed to win primaries is often quite different from what is needed to govern. Primary politics is the "politics of celebrity." Experience counts for little and sound policy for less. Indeed, the time required for shaking hands at factory gates, smiling triumphantly at barbecues and endorsing local candidates at gatherings of party faithful makes being unemployed (but rich...
DIED. Ella Grasso, 61, effective Connecticut politician, first woman to govern a state who did not succeed her husband; of cancer; in Hartford (see NATION...