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...Wide World of Sports is an ironically accurate one: Americans have not landed a medal in the 70-or 90-meter event since a 1924 bronze. In Sarajevo, all eyes will be on Finland's renowned Matti Nykanen. That is just fine with Jeff Hastings, 24, and Mike Holland, 22, both legitimate medal contenders. They have flown on their 16-lb. skis since their childhood days in Norwich, Vt. It was not a desire for the limelight that has had them flying. "Defying gravity for a few seconds is kind of addictive," says Hastings, who bested Nykanen...
...Franciscus Maria Lubbers. 44, has not just dented the Iron Lady's reputation. He has transformed The Netherlands from one of Western Europe's freest-spending welfare states into its leading belt tightener. During Lubbers' visit to Washington this week for talks with President Reagan, however, Holland's pivotal role in another issue will top the agenda. Alone among the NATO allies destined to receive new medium-range missiles. Holland has not yet made a final decision to accept them. Amid rising fears that the powerful Dutch peace movement could persuade Parliament to reject the deployment...
...Unemployment compensation was cut by 5%. The first of several planned reductions lowered the minimum wage by 2.5%. The biggest sting, however, was the 3% public-sector wage cut. Outraged transport workers responded by interrupting rail, bus and tram service for five weeks. Then the sanitation workers struck, turning Holland into a landscape of trash-and taking pains to block Lubbers' own street with refuse. A postal strike halted mail deliveries for three weeks. Still, Lubbers stood firm. After Parliament approved the wage cuts, the unions conceded. But Lubbers' victory came at a cost. His center-right Christian...
During the dialogue on the history of South Africa Leonard Thompson, a Yale professor, gave a chronology of major events in South Africa's history. He stressed that the nation had a rich history prior to 1652, when whites from Holland settled there...
...little more creative. To protest a government proposal for a 3% cut in civil servants' wages, as well as in benefits for the unemployed, aged and sick, 350 off-duty members of the Amsterdam fire brigade journeyed 40 miles to The Hague, where they filled the Binnenhof, Holland's parliamentary complex, with synthetic fire-fighting foam. From the windows above, the ancient square looked as if a severe storm had buried it in 14 feet of snow...