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...terrible consequences. As it was, at least twelve people were killed and 35 wounded, although the casualty figures may turn out to be higher. Among the dead were two Americans attached to the embassy's military liaison office: Army Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth V. Welch of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Navy Petty Officer First Class Michael Ray Wagner of Zebulon, N.C. The other fatalities were Lebanese civilians working at the embassy or seeking visas...
...American spirit, as Carter dearly hoped five summers ago? It sure feels like it. Even the walkouts called against General Motors last weekend were reluctant and selective (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). "People seem to be enjoying themselves more," says Mel Hagen, 35, an auto worker from Keego Harbor, Mich., a working-class town outside Detroit. "Things aren't as tight as they once were." Homosexual Activist Harry Britt, a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors, also senses a change. Says he: "I haven't found anybody who doesn't feel good about being an American right...
...upbeat situation, I think it's a mystical experience that cannot be defined." In Pontiac, Mich., black Bookkeeper Mary Williams, 55, lives in a neat, integrated neighborhood. She is not poor, but neither is she glad about the state of the nation. A New York Times survey last fall found that only 35% of blacks said they were "very patriotic," compared with 56% of whites. In Fairmont, W. Va., Olympic Gymnast Mary Lou Retton's home town, people are brimming with pride, of course. Yet unemployment is running at 10%, and as Mayor Gregory Hinton says, "Patriotism does...
Soon after midnight, picket lines began forming at GM plants from California to New Jersey. "Grab a sign and get in line," shouted union organizers at workers as they poured out of the GM factory in Pontiac, Mich. The signs read: U.A.W. ON STRIKE FOR JOB SECURITY and ONE DAY HEADLINES, THE NEXT DAY BREADLINES. At a Chevrolet plant in Van Nuys, Calif., most of the 4,045 U.A.W. members walked off the job, and the facility shut down. The company was forced to cancel two Saturday shifts at its Buick assembly plant in Flint, Mich...
...Steve Abbott TE Orono, Maine 89 Pete Miclach DE Scotch Plains, N.J. 90 John Lowenstein SE Arlington, Mass. 91 Bill Ross DE New Smyrna, Fla. 92 Mike Bunar MG Hanson, Mass. 93 Joe Walsh DT Wycoff, N.J. 94 Joe Lee TE Fort Wayne, Ind. 94 Mare Miller DT Niles, Mich. 95 Barry Ford DT Peekskill, N.Y. 96 Brent Clapacs DE Euclid, Ohio 97 Brian Sullivan DE Walpole, Mass. 98 Clifton Tidwell DE Evanston, Ill. 99 Stan Yukevich DE Richmond...