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Every night, in the strange chamber that John Kennedy named the Situation Room, anonymous clerks, secretaries and experts in the rites of secrecy assemble a picture of the globe from the preceding 24 hours. It comes, in fragments, from thousands of sources: satellites that scan China, spies watching Warsaw Pact maneuvers near Poland, diplomats who read the Moscow papers and walk in Red Square studying the people...
...might have been responsible, but the exercises had already been suspended. Finally, Suzuki's apparently successful visit to Washington in May turned into an embarrassment after a joint communique referred for the first time to a U.S.-Japan "alliance," a phrase that to the Japanese connotes a military pact. Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito, who helped draft the dispatch, resigned...
...United Mine Workers of America-and neither are contract settlements that come unstuck at the last moment. Such was the fate two months ago of U.M.W. Leader Sam Church Jr.'s first effort to win a new three-year work contract. Soon after negotiators initialed the proposed pact, workers voted thumbs down on ratification by a 2-to-1 majority...
...Washington's Capital Hilton Hotel and announced that a new deal had been reached with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which represents 130 leading soft-coal mineowners. Said Church: "I finally made it; we have a contract." Asked if the U.M.W.'s membership would ratify the proposed pact, the union boss gamely ventured, "I think...
...decision to drop that provision in the first contract had been the basis for the rank and file's rejection of the deal. The B.C.O.A. has now agreed to resume and even Increase the payments. Mineowners also retreated on another point of contention in the March pact: refusing to limit the use of nonunion workers at the mines by company subcontractors. Having reached agreement with the operators, Church set out to talk with his workers. Said he: "Like Willie Nelson, I'm going on the road again." First stop: Birmingham...