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...France's Air Inter pass allows unlimited air travel within the country (7 or 14 days, $135 or $210). France-Vacances plan ($95) offers seven days of unlimited second-class rail travel, four days of Metro and bus service in Paris, transportation from Paris airports, plus a one-day train trip with rental Renault 5 and 100 km free mileage...
...One measure of just how helpless the U.S. has come to think of itself in dealings with OPEC was that investors seemed relieved that the official increase was "only" 9%. When that news reached Wall Street, stocks surged in their best one-day rally in five months. In Washington, the State Department called the rise "untimely and unjustified," and let it go at that. About the only Washington official to speak out strongly was Senator Henry Jackson. Besides showing OPEC's "greed," he said, the price boost reflected "a punitive doctrine" by Arab oil states eager to condemn...
...since the General Strike of 1926 have so many British trade unionists been pulled off their jobs in quest of pay hikes. For the third straight week, a strike by 80,000 truck drivers slowed trade and industry to a near standstill. Locomotive drivers repeated crippling one-day work stoppages that forced hundreds of thousands of commuters into their cars and onto highways made treacherous by a blanket of snow. Still more troubles loomed as London's subway workers considered striking this week. Four public employees unions, whose 1.5 million members include nursery attendants, teachers, hospital workers and crematory...
...sophisticated mediation and arbitration machinery that has long been a part of U.S. labor laws. Beyond that, top-ranking union leaders now appear to have relatively little control over an ever more aggressive rank and file. Many public workers declined to return to work even after the official one-day demonstration of strength had ended...
...wrenching industrial changes are stirring worker protest. Last week, their jobs in jeopardy, West German steelworkers were threatening to strike to back up their demands for shorter hours. Meanwhile, the Belgian government took over a large part of that country's steel industry. In September, French steelworkers called a one-day strike against a government plan to rescue their industry from bankruptcy by, among other means, eliminating up to 30,000 jobs over the next five years. Textile workers in France's Vosges region earlier staged an angry march through factory towns to protest the downfall of the once mighty...