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...stalled and sliding cars. Mused one former Chicagoan: "I feel a little ridiculous being snowbound in 1 ½ in. of snow." Many motorists simply abandoned their cars. But Virginia Lichlyter, a graduate student at Georgia State University, persevered. Her six-mile commute from school to home took 7½ hr. Thousands of people were marooned overnight in office buildings, shopping malls and a mortuary. Atlantans rushed to stock up on portable heaters, batteries, lanterns and candles. "It's been crazy, totally insane," said Hardware Store Salesman James Hoelscher. "We're sold out of just about everything." In fact...
...never came. In his 2½-hr. meeting with Reagan, Schmidt blunted the sharply critical approach that the President had planned with some disarming observations. He admitted that his first reaction to the Polish crisis was soft, but said he had not been fully briefed. Then, veering off the subject, he apologized for a West German vote on a United Nations resolution in December attacking U.S. policy in El Salvador. Most important, Schmidt readily agreed to endorse a formal joint statement that stressed his support for the American position on Poland...
Jaruzelski last week summoned eight West European diplomats to a 1½-hr. meeting at which he defended his martial law decision as the only cure for anarchy. Accusing Solidarity "extremists" of "haughtiness," he cryptically suggested that some of the interned union leaders might be exiled to the West. The general also attacked the U.S. economic sanctions as "interference" in Polish affairs and denied that he had acted on Soviet orders. Even as he spoke, however, foreign ministers of the European Community were meeting in Brussels, where they adopted a strong resolution condemning martial law in Poland and blaming...
...when talks on a new three-year contract begin. GM showed a 22-min. color film called A Battle for Survival to some 400,000 unionized workers in an attempt to encourage them to hold down demands. A pointed message in the presentation: American labor costs are $8 per hr. more than in Japan, and U.S. firms can only compete if they can narrow that gap. GM wants to put a lid on automatic cost of living allowances, increase employee contributions to health plans, and reduce holiday and vacation time. U.A.W. members now receive $19.65 per hr. in wages...
...talks have already started between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and 284 major trucking companies. With one-fifth of the union's 300,000 drivers and warehouse workers laid off, Teamsters President Roy Williams has said that his demands would be "reasonable." The union won a $1.50-per-hr. pay increase in its last contract on top of cost of living allowances, pushing hourly wages to an average $12.80. But it is not asking for any additional hike this year...