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...oligarchic "100 families" who virtually own the economy have been desperately maneuvering and power-brokering to keep the junta from making concessions to restive workers. The junta's headquarters in the Presidential Palace has been besieged daily by laborers petitioning for better conditions and pay. Lisbon postal clerks, who now earn about 4,000 escudos ($160) a month, erected a banner demanding higher wages. The banner originally called for 6,000 escudos, but by week's end the figure had been raised...
Adding to Trudeau's woes has been a series of crippling strikes by postal workers, river pilots and airport firemen. Angry critics suggested that the federal government, for whom all the strikers work, had met the crises with a minimum of negotiating skill...
...chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee, and co-sponsored by 22 other Senators including Massachusetts' Edward M. Kennedy and Arizona's Barry Goldwater, the measure would give newspapers and magazines an extra three years to absorb soaring second-class rates (TIME, Feb. 25). Under the present Postal Service schedule of phased increases, periodicals collectively will have to pay at least 218% more to use the mails in 1976 than they did in 1971. (Under increases already in force they are paying 80% more.) The bill passed by the Senate would extend that schedule...
...guilt on conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. Moreover, they were unsettled by the fact that he admitted under cross-examination that he hoped his performance at the Mitchell-Stans trial would be noted by the judge who would mete out his punishment. Clarence Brown, a postal employee, expressed his fellow jurors' feelings: "I liked John Dean. I didn't fully believe him, though. He was a man trying to save his own skin...
...COUNTRY and FIGHT COMMUNISM. Though the bogus stamps carried no rate and no official imprimatur declaring them to be U.S. postage, the postal service canceled them and sent the letters on their way, pre- sumably unable to recognize free enterprise when...