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...John McKean, a California accountant, who lent $60,000 to Meese in 1981 and demanded no interest payments for more than 20 months. McKean was appointed a part-time member of the Postal Service board of governors on July 31, 1981, and is now the board's chairman...
Metzenbaum remained skeptical of Meese's insistence that the loans had nothing to do with McKean's selection on July 31, 1981, to become a member of the Postal Service board of governors. McKean had not been on a formal list of candidates for the part-time position when Meese, Deaver, Chief of Staff James Baker and Personnel Director E. Pendleton James met to recommend board members. Deaver suggested McKean, Meese concurred, and McKean got the job, which pays $10,000 a year. Metzenbaum asked why Meese had not told Baker and James, as well as the President...
...Cohen-Orgad acknowledges that the fig ure may triple, to 30,000 (2.5%), this year. There has already been widespread la bor unrest. Defense minis try employees have been on a work slowdown for two months. Last week the nation's railroad workers went out on strike, while postal employees caused major disruptions in mail service and all 60,000 of the country's civil servants went on strike for three hours...
...biggest sting, however, was the 3% public-sector wage cut. Outraged transport workers responded by interrupting rail, bus and tram service for five weeks. Then the sanitation workers struck, turning Holland into a landscape of trash-and taking pains to block Lubbers' own street with refuse. A postal strike halted mail deliveries for three weeks. Still, Lubbers stood firm. After Parliament approved the wage cuts, the unions conceded. But Lubbers' victory came at a cost. His center-right Christian Democrats and their Liberal Party coalition partners have dropped from a 52% public approval rating last summer...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was also preoccupied with his country's deteriorating economy. Squeezed be tween a record 1983 inflation rate of 200% and a sluggish pace in cost of living pay raises, Israelis are staging impromptu strikes. The country's 4,500 postal workers stayed away from their jobs for three days last week, while 800 Interior Ministry employees walked out on Thursday...