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...pattern was distressingly familiar. After a New Year's Eve coup, Jerry Rawlings, 34, a former air force flight lieutenant, moved ruthlessly to fashion what he called a "people's government." Working with friends in the military, he summarily dismissed Ghana's parliament, banned political parties and suspended the nation's constitution. By the end of last week the new military government had called for special "people's tribunals" to try Ghanaians, including government officials, arrested for crimes "against the people." The announcement raised fears that the takeover would follow the course of Rawlings...
...that some observations may seem impenetrable to outsiders: "I began to take a few fish on a small Fore-and-Aft fly with one grizzly hackle at each end of the hook and peacock herl wrapped in between," writes Carter. "Later I tied a few of them and the pattern proved to be surprisingly effective, both in the riffles and in the smooth water, even at times when the all-black Spruce Creek Special or the redoubtable Black Ant would not work in the meadow pools." Says Fly Fisherman Editor John Randolph of Carter's prose: "He got everything...
Major labor negotiations are due to take place during the year. The auto and rubber workers and the teamsters are all bargaining for new contracts. Although such groups represent only a small fraction of the total American labor force, they traditionally have set the wage pattern for the rest of unionized employees and even influenced wage settlements for many nonunion workers...
...pattern of Red Brigades kidnapings has been to draw out the agonized suspense for governments and the families of victims, often issuing two or three shrill polemical communiques be-:ore setting ransom. One possible demand in the Dozier case: scrapping a plan to install 112 nuclear-tipped American cruise missiles in southern Sicily...
...unemployment picture next year looks grim. In most economic downturns, joblessness continues to grow even after the economy starts to recover, and TIME'S board sees the pattern being repeated once again in 1982. By year's end, the board expects unemployment to stand at 8.3% of the labor force after peaking at 9% during the second quarter of 1982. Such a jobless rate would match that of the 1973-75 slump as the worst in the postwar...