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Upset with changes made by Pallotta, workers have filed charges of until labor practices with the National I about Relations Board (NI RB), where they will present their case this April, unless Pallotta accepts their demands before then...
...Niño, a reference to the Christ Child, is a warm current of equatorial water that usually appears off the coast of South America around Christmas. Its impact on annual weather patterns is generally minor. But the present El Niño began late in the spring of 1982, when atmospheric pressure at the western edge of the Pacific inexplicably began to rise, while air pressure was dropping along coastlines in the Americas. The resulting pressure gap reduced the strength of the Pacific trade winds, which normally blow warm surface waters westward, away from the Americas. As air-pressure...
Meteorologists still do not understand why El Niño arrives in cycles, causing extreme heatings of ocean temperatures every four or five years. The El Niño of 1972, though less severe than the present one, nevertheless crippled the South American fishing industry. Although few of these episodes last longer than a year, two-year El Niños were recorded in 1877-79 and in 1940-42. Meteorologist Oswaldo Garcia notes that there are some disturbing similarities between the present El Niño and the 1877 episode, which may have contributed to flooding in California...
Meteorologists suspect that droughts in India, Mexico, southern Africa and the Philippines are attributable to El Niño, the Pacific current that may also account for this spring's record rains in California. But El Niño does not explain the aridity of northeastern Brazil, where rainfall this year is running at one-eighth its normal rate. In most afflicted areas, paralyzing dryness is, alas, endemic. Explains Roman Kintanar, president of the World Meteorological Society: "What we have right now is just one of the vagaries of weather...
Right now, one of the few things relieving some of the pressure on the Mexican government seems to be a widespread attitude of ni modo, a fatalist mood of "nothing can be done about it." Even labor unions are not optimistic about getting big wage increases. They had been asking for a 50% hike but probably will get only 20% at best, even though inflation has chopped the buying power of the average worker by 60%. Working union members seem happy enough just to have jobs. Two weeks ago, attempts to get a general strike off the ground fizzled. While...