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Tory proposals to get tough with the unions are another potential minefield. Admittedly, British trade unions are inflexible and old-fashioned. So is British management. It is at least arguable that management's perpetuation of a "Them and Us" syndrome through a whole host of class-based divisions--ranging from the most trivial policies like separate eating places for management and labor, to a refusal to allow any German-style worker-director or incentive-involvement schemes--is largely responsible for Britain's appalling labor relations, and not the so-called leftist shop stewards that the Tory press loves to attack...
...fence between parts of the U.S. and Mexico [Oct. 30], I'm having trouble determining which side of the fence the barbarians are on. Have we decided to protect ourselves from the world, or the world from us? Will our next step be two hundred yards of minefield next to the fence...
...have any impact. The men's love interests (Anne Archer, Joyce Ingalls, Aimee Eccles) are all crassly conceived stereotypes; there is even a hooker with a heart of gold. Whatever credibility exists in the screenplay is soon destroyed by Stallone's direction. Paradise Alley is a cinematic minefield of bizarre transitions, cryptic anecdotes, continuity lapses and mushy dissolves. Despite Laszlo Kovacs' first-rate cinematography and Deborah Beaudet's evocative art direction, much of the film looks like a home movie...
Edging into this minefield, HEW took until 1975 to publish a set of regulations to govern application of Title IX. The provisions stopped far short of requiring a school to set up an equivalent women's team for every male one; but if a school had only one team in a noncontact sport, like golf or tennis, women had a right to try out for it. Schools did not have to let females take part in such contact sports as football, basketball, ice hockey and rugby. When it came down to the key question of money, the regulations were vague...
...goal of disarmament was obviously unrealistic, and one West German Foreign Ministry official went so far as to dismiss the conference as "a propaganda exercise for all concerned." Perhaps so, but other speakers broached more modest ideas that could at least provide some safety markings on the global minefield, if not defuse...