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...production operations for The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, is trying to break the srike. If that complaint is upheld, strikers would be entitled to return to jobs now performed by the some1,300 new employees the company says are permanent replacements. The move represents a last-ditch effort by the unions to salvage a walkout that has not gone as well as hoped. The unions, representing more than 2,000 employees ranging from delivery drivers and pressmen to reporters and editors, were united in their conviction that Detroit Newspapers set out to break them. However, they were...
...audience. He saves the day of course, hitting the heavily protected weak link in the planet-fortress of the Empire that reduces the forces of evil to a pyrotechnic starburst signaling the end of the dark days in the universe, While the dogfight that leads into the last-ditch attack is a mite drawn out, the denouement amply compensates for any peccadillos of self-indulgence that Lucas commits as he films the dueling spacecraft...
...Texas, there's an unwelcoming crowd on the ground. Michigan and Illinois? Not good. Likewise Ohio. Forget New York. Even Florida is tilting the wrong way. That suggests an explanation for the official version of the Republican endgame, the one Dole's campaign embarked on last week. It calls for a last-ditch effort to win California and its 54 electoral votes, even if that means neglecting smaller but more promising potential swing states like Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As justification, Dole's team points to one important poll, the San Francisco-based Mervin Field survey. Early last week...
CATHY BOOTH barely had time to glance at the Pacific before she leaped into her new job as West Coast bureau chief with the fervor that has kept colleagues' heads spinning for years. This week her bureau contributed to a typical array of stories, including Bob Dole's last-ditch campaign effort in California, the state's ballot initiative on marijuana, the latest rush of O.J. Simpson revelations and the retooling of the CBS sitcom Ink. Booth, who did standout reporting from Haiti and Cuba while heading TIME's Miami bureau, says of her new turf, "We have every story...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: That's Ross for Boss, not Ross in a supporting role. Bob Dole's last-ditch effort to shake up the presidential race stalled when Ross Perot rebuffed Dole's request to withdraw from the campaign and throw his support to the Republican ticket. In a rare campaign speech before the National Press Club on Thursday, Perot called Dole's overture "weird and totally inconsequential" and said he was in the race to stay. Perot said he would not discuss details of his Wednesday meeting with Dole campaign manager Scott Reed. But he said, "Do I intend...