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Guatemala badly needs all forms of aid to prop up its deteriorating economy. Inflation estimates run as high as 60%, and nearly half the labor force is either unemployed or underemployed. Discontent over the inability of the military regime of General Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores to reverse the economic slump and doubt that a civilian government may be able to do much better have revived support for the country's leftist guerrillas. "There are many people in this country living in misery," says Benedicto Lucas García, a retired general and former Chief of Staff who directed...
...since 1982 have negotiators for the United Auto Workers and Chrysler squared off for comprehensive contract talks. When U.A.W. President Owen Bieber and Tom Miner, Chrysler's vice president of labor relations, shook hands last week to open new negotiations, the circumstances were very different from those surrounding the earlier talks. In 1982 Chrysler was just starting to come back from a brush with bankruptcy, its veins full of bailout money. Today the company is robust, its sales up and Government-backed loans of $1.2 billion paid...
...before the October 15 deadline is the location of new plants. The union wants a promise from Chrysler that it will build the Liberty, a subcompact designed to compete with General Motors' Saturn, in the U.S. rather than in South Korea or some other country that offers low-cost labor. SHIPPING S.O.S. from Japan's Sanko...
...country's seven-year military dictatorship. Thugs in the crowd ran amuck and attacked a police bus. One of the cops shot back, killing a 15-year-old schoolboy. The Athens government quickly charged the policeman with manslaughter. Papandreou, who has been under attack from organized labor for imposing austerity measures, condemned the shooting as a "horrible act of murder...
Women are now setting their corporate goals high, and more and more are achieving their ambitions. Between 1972 and 1983, the number of executive women in U.S. business more than doubled, from 1.4 million to 3.5 million, and it is still climbing. Says Harvard Labor Economist David E. Bloom: "The growth of women in the work force is probably the single most important change that has ever taken place in the American labor market. Their arrival at high executive levels will be the major development for working women over the next 20 years...