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Skelm's poverty is reflected in its flat, treeless landscape so characteristic of Lancashire. The air is heavy with dust and the northern wind is harsh. The town's only landmark is the beacon on one of the few hills at the city limits. Visitors are always taken to the beacon to see the fine farmlands to the south and west, the motorway to the east, and the decaying city of Wigan to the north. There is no exit or entrance to the motorway at Skelmersdale...
...melodramatic tone never disappears from Baird's harsh complaints, but it is understandable. This time he might really get thrown to the wolves. So he is scared of the ten year jail sentence, of course, but you can also sense an extra measure of fright and incredulity in his voice, because to his mind, at least, nobody is even watching...
...gunners have rained as many as 900 rounds of big artillery and mortar shells a day on the Marine stronghold two miles south of the DMZ. Last week, as they poked their heads out of their muddy dugouts, the Marines at Con Thien noticed an unusual absence of the harsh hiss of incoming shells. U.S. aerial reconnaissance found out why: in groups of 10 and 15, North Vietnamese regulars were spotted making their way northward out of the DMZ, leaving behind some abandoned gun emplacements. Plagued by problems of supply and outgunned by the U.S. response, which daily included...
...make their transition to retire ment less harsh, Obote is arranging severance pay for the kings in amounts ranging from $25,000 for the ex-Queen of Buganda, who stayed behind when Freddie fled, to $70,500 for the Omukama of Bunyoro. Obote has confiscated, however, most of the splendid trappings of royalty. He sent a dump truck to cart off the Omugabe of Ankole's throne, his velvet ceremonial robes, his gilt crowns and his fat royal drums of buckskin. Last week the aging, potbellied Omukama of Bunyoro watched sadly as his regalia of silken robes and black...
...ruling marked the first enforcement of the state's new Taylor Law. Last month it replaced the Condon-Wadlin Act, which had required such harsh punishment that it was rarely enforced. (Transport Workers President Mike Quill was jailed during an illegal strike in 1966, but the penalty was for contempt of court, not violation of Condon-Wadlin.) The Taylor Law is an attempt to deal with a growing tendency among public-employee unions to ignore injunctions and strike anyway (TIME, Sept. 29). It holds unions responsible, where Condon-Wadlin used to be aimed against the individual employee. When...