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...December 1979 price increases, strained the group's credibility. But the representatives brushed off charges of overly optimistic oil consumption forecasts and continued showing their charts and graphs. No hard feelings, of course: lunch time controversy focused on the dubious end zone call in last year's Steeler-Oiler playoff game...
...nuclear attack submarines. The admirals would like an extra $2 billion to $2.5 billion for shipbuilding in 1980. This would buy two more attack submarines, one more destroyer armed with the devastatingly accurate AEGIS guided-missile weapons system, a landing ship for the Marines and two oilers. The oiler shortage typifies the Navy's plight. While at least 21 oilers are needed to keep the fleet steaming, only 16 are available and ten of these were commissioned before the end of World War II. Mines are also scarce, and torpedo stockpiles are so low that there are not even enough...
...Says Joe Rodriguez, who was recruited for the mission out of a Hollywood hairdressing salon because he had served a Navy stint on an aircraft carrier: "We worried about capture. We used to joke in the engine room about Roosky women and what they do with civilian spies." An oiler on the Glomar, Rodriguez is the first crew member to talk publicly about Project Jennifer...
...Machine Oiler. If Sadlowski does become the Steelworkers' chief, both the economy and the climate of the nation's labor-management relations could significantly be affected. The U.S.W., one of the unions whose contracts often set a pattern for others, has recently developed a tradition of peaceful and cooperative bargaining. It has not called an industry-wide strike since a marathon 116-day struggle...
Sadlowski, who went to work at 18 as a machine oiler for U.S. Steel in Gary, and has been working in union jobs since age 22, will have none of that tradition. He talks an unabashed 1930s brand of labor radicalism, naming as his heroes Socialist Eugene V. Debs and John L. Lewis, and describes his goals for the Steelworkers in the single word change. He rails against "tuxedo unionism" -the proclivity of leaders to hobnob with management-and pledges to reduce union salaries, presumably including the president's $75,000 a year. He wants less noise and dirt...