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Hugging the eastern bank of the rust-colored Monongahela River, the mammoth Wheeling-Pittsburgh steel plant has long dominated the town of Monessen, Pa. (pop. 12,000), situated in the shadow of the Allegheny Mountains 40 miles south of Pittsburgh. Last week the mill was conspicuous for another reason. Hit by the first major strike of the United Steelworkers in 26 years, the Wheeling plant stood idle...
Wheeling workers said that management's demands were unacceptable. "We won't work for slave wages," said Paul Chasshind, one of many pickets marching last week near an entrance to the Monessen plant. His co-workers point out that together they have given back $141 million in reduced pay and profit sharing over the past three years. Labor leaders fear that if Wheeling-Pittsburgh achieves its goals, other steelmakers will be inspired to seek their own concessions from workers. Said Don Caterino, a third-generation steelworker: "If we cave in, workers at other mills will get buried...
Mexico, though, enjoyed at least one bit of good economic news last week. IBM announced that it would build a microcomputer plant near Guadalajara. The facility will be wholly owned by the American company, marking the first time Mexico has permitted a foreign high-tech firm to have 100% control of a local subsidiary. A 1973 law limits foreign ownership to 49%. In January, Mexico rejected IBM's proposal to build the plant, but the company made several concessions to get the deal. It agreed to invest $91 million over five years, instead of the $6.6 million initially planned...
...when the cold war was at its height, flying saucers were flitting over suburban barbecues, and Americans were feeling, perhaps justifiably, a little paranoid. Among the first of these science-fiction creature features was The Thing, a real scarer in which a huge and extremely unpleasant plant lands in the Arctic, the point man, so to speak, of an invasion by other vainglorious veggies. "You mean we're dealing with a walking carrot?" asks an indignant reporter...
Compensation: Under threat of public foreclosure, make all the Final Clubs change their animal names into plant names. Or protozoa, but nothing as cool as archaebacteria. And force the Oak to rename itself the Blue-Footed Booby. Humiliation is the only thing that works on these kids...