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...said that the outlook for acceptance was excellent, but airline unions are unpredictable. Locals are fragmented and undisciplined, and their leaders have torpedoed agreements reached at the national level in the past. If the machinists do vote in favor of the pact, United planned to restore full service by midweek...
...circumstances, Premier Aleksei Kosygin's failure to appear at the opening of the Supreme Soviet session, and Brezhnev's midweek absence at a meeting, raised the eyebrows of some Western Kremlinologists. Although the latest grain disaster was a result of ferocious weather conditions, the two ailing leaders might make handy scapegoats for alleged errors in agricultural planning. Both men later reappeared in public; Sovietologists in Washington predict that Brezhnev will remain firmly in power until well after the Communist Party Congress meets next February. Indeed, Brezhnev reportedly delivered a secret speech to the Supreme Soviet attacking people...
...sure, many Americans had not changed their minds. Senator Howard Baker, a Tennessee Republican, reported that of 88 letters he had received on the subject by midweek, 79 opposed federal aid to New York and only nine favored it. Notes Bob Turner, district representative for New Hampshire G.O.P. Congressman James Cleveland: "Nobody we've talked to wants the President or anybody else to bail out New York City...
...city's best hope lies with Congress, which this week will hold hearings on rescue plans. The Senate Banking Committee is expected to settle on a bill by midweek, followed the next week by its counterpart in the House. Both chambers seemed likely to accept a plan that would guarantee state loans to keep New York afloat while it constricts its payroll and services to balance its budget by 1978. Congressmen are reluctant to help, but more and more of them feel that there is no alternative. Explained House Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill...
...midweek, a small white car sped past police headquarters in the Barcelona suburb of La Verneda just after midnight and sprayed the modern building with machine-gun fire. No one was injured. A few moments later, another white car approached the station. Trigger-happy police, believing the second car to be part of the assault, blazed away with their weapons, killing the auto's passengers-a couple and their son returning home from a wake. For reasons still unknown, the police inside the headquarters then fired at a gray police Jeep that had been following the second...