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...public--by changing the criteria for classification--and over the type and amount of foreign information which is allowed to enter the country. They have categorized more films as "political propaganda" and prevented foreign speakers--visitors like the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende and Reverend Ian Paisley and Owen Carron, spokesmen for respectively the radical Protestant and Roman Catholic groups in Northern Ireland--with anti-American views from accepting invitations to speak at American universities. And The New York Times reported several weeks ago on yet one more infringement of rights--legally requiring a lifetime "prepublication review...
...Owen named them, "the old Lie," few periods of history seem to have relished war more, or taken to it more readily. From the array of wars that have ravaged Europe, the Middle East, the Congo, Korea, Malaya, Viet Nam and Central America in our times, with new sites added almost daily, one might conclude that the main characterizing idea of the past 60 years was war itself. (Who could have dreamed up the war in the Falklands?) It follows that what will have mattered most about these years is the apparent universal desire to knock each other...
...Owen G. Gingerich, professor of Astronomy and the History of Science...
Chrysler's unions now want a share of the company's new prosperity. Said United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber last week: "Iacocca knows full well that it was the Chrysler workers, more than anyone, who made the sacrifices." The company's U.A.W. employees gave up nearly $1 billion in wages and benefits. Chrysler workers currently make $2 less an hour than their counterparts at General Motors and Ford. This week Chrysler and the U.A.W. will begin talks about immediate modifications of the current contract. An agreement could give workers at least a $1-an-hour raise...
Jenkins' decision surprised the Social Democrats. Formed by disaffected Laborites in 1981, the S.D.P. won only six seats in the election but in an alliance with the Liberals attracted 26% of the vote. Jenkins received poor reviews as a campaigner, while Deputy Leader David Owen, 44, who served as Foreign Secretary during the government of Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, emerged as articulate and energetic. Jenkins could have stayed on, but he graciously stepped aside and allowed Owen to take charge...