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...Wednesday, Mediators Wayne Horovitz and William Hobgood had persuaded the U.M.W. bargaining council to accept the P. & M. settlement as its own pattern setter. The pressure was now seriously coming to bear on the B.C.O.A. The mine owners, who had only reluctantly answered President Carter's initial plea for new negotiations after their deal with Miller collapsed, had feared such a shift all along. They sensed the U.M.W.'s perverse strength: since the rank and file would not necessarily follow their leader, logic dictated that the Government try to make the more organized opposing party bend toward settlement...
...response to Avital Shcharansky's plea, Alan Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday he and Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mass) will send an offer of assistance to Silvia Dubrovskaya, the lawyer the Soviet government has appointed to defend Anatoly Shcharansky...
Regrettably, many people may read the recruitment article as a plea for minority favoritism. It struck me, however, that the authors were asking for equity, and for a far more rigorous admissions process--not favoritism. They want an accurate assessment of the meaning, or lack of meaning, of standardized test scores, so that other criteria can be assessed in importance and utilized effectively...
...relatively little to Loren Jr. It wasn't the stocks that his son should have appreciated, Olivier says to himself, sitting in the driver's seat and clutching the wheel. "It wasn't the money. It was the car," and the word "car" becomes a gasp, a whine, a plea, a lost, dying sigh, a single syllable endowed with a lifetime of emotion, and as Olivier's head sinks down into the shadow of the steering wheel, John Barry's dignified music rises and the camera slowly dollies back to include the mansion and the grounds, and the image fades...
...that may lie beneath the continental shelf. Most energy-hungry Americans hope the oilmen find what they are looking for. Anne Simon will be satisfied if they do not make what she considers a bad situation even worse. A veteran coast watcher, Simon has already written an impassioned plea for the preservation of Martha's Vineyard. In her newest book, she appeals just as ardently for an end to the steady destruction of the world's coastlines...