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Carter's advisers fear that the 1979 negotiations in the trucking, auto and construction industries will lock the economy into a cycle of 10% wage and benefit boosts in each of the next three years, to be followed by jarring price rises. The President has exhorted workers and managers to hold wage-price increases below the average for the past two years, but aides now think that the "deceleration" program is too vague. Many want Carter to urge that all wage settlements be held to 8% or less...
Baseball didn't have a lock on all post-season honors, as three Crimson lacrosse players were tabbed as All-Americans. Rising junior Peter Predun won a spot on the third team, while rising seniors Mike Faught and Ken First received honorable mentions. Graduated tennis captain Todd Lundy picked up All-League honors, as well...
Police detained six suspects. Among them: the owner of the Rex, who was charged with negligence for having ordered his employees to lock the exits to prevent terrorists from entering the theater. But opposition groups outside Iran accused SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, of setting the blaze in order to provoke a backlash against dissident groups. Many Iranians, however, blamed Ayatullah Khomeini, a Shi'ite mullah (religious leader) who has lived in exile in Iraq since 1963. Khomeini swore unrelenting enmity to the Shah after hundreds of his followers were killed while protesting the monarch's land-reform program...
...Faculty Discussion: "Education and Society: The Harvard Tradition." James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, will hold forth in Science Center B. Fondly known as "Captain Lock-em-Up," Wilson is an expert criminologist. The word briliant fits Wilson like on of the fancy suits he wears. So do the words conservative, archaic, and gradeslayer. Whatever, he'll be talking about how great Harvard is, and what a contribution it has made to society (yeah, and napalm was invented here, too), and so on. Skippable, although it might be intersting as a way of seeing how offical Harvard perceives itself...
...through the rooms of the palace shouting, "Extra omnes!" (Everybody out). All not permitted in the conclave will then leave. A chosen Cardinal, in this case Argentina's Eduardo Pironio, will supervise the lockup inside. Two other Vatican officials and the commandant of the Swiss Guard will also lock the door from the outside. Special notaries will duly document the sealing...