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...down at the worker, foreman and department-supervisor levels. Doug Peach enters the negotiations at the fourth stage of a ritualized dispute procedure that calls for as many as seven steps leading up to John Owen's office. The difference in question is $5 a week. At a parley in the manager's office, Peach is told that another Rubery Owen plant pays the lower rate ($87.55 a week...
...Rhodesian groups could not even agree on a location for future meetings. Last week's parley was staged right on the border between Rhodesia and Zambia, a concession to the fact that Smith would not hold the talks outside Rhodesia and Muzorewa would not hold them inside. Smith insisted that future sessions be held inside Rhodesia. But six A.N.C. members who face arrest on subversion charges if they should return to Rhodesia would not be able to attend. Smith bluntly refused to grant the council leaders temporary immunity, explaining: "It would involve people who are well-known terrorist leaders...
Predictably, Arab countries protested the agreement with Israel; Algeria requested cancellation of an Arab-Common Market parley that was in the last stages of preparation. The Arabs' pique seemed to be directed not so much at the EEC-Israeli accord, but at the fact that it was signed before any Arab state was brought into the EEC's scheme for a Mediterranean free-trade area...
...recession, meanwhile, is impeding efforts to negotiate still greater freedom of trade. Last week in Geneva, representatives to a GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) parley argued over whether tariffs on farm commodities should be handled by an agricultural subcommittee or by a committee with broader authority. U.S. policymakers want to consider them together; in this manner, Americans and Canadians could agree to let in more European industrial exports in exchange for greater freedom of access to the European market for farm goods. For precisely the same reason, Europeans are lobbying against such linked bargaining. Their argument: recent dock...
...parley, known as the Harvard Model United Nations, had an authorized budget given it beforehand by the 16-member board of directors of its parent organization. The International Relations Council...