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...idea that the state should own major industries conjures up images of such titans of inefficiency as the Postal Service or British Steel. French Socialists cite a far different example: the Renault automobile company, which General Charles de Gaulle nationalized in 1945 to punish Founder-Owner Louis Renault for allegedly collaborating with the Nazi Occupation and which today stands out as one of France's most dynamic enterprises...
Because the drugs are not mislabeled by the manufacturer the Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for the safety and efficacy of drugs, can do nothing under present laws. Neither can the Drug Enforcement Administration, which applies laws only against illegal use of controlled substances. But the U.S. Postal Service has filed complaints against 39 mail-order companies, charging them with misrepresenting the safety of their products. Delaware was the first of several states to pass special statutes against lookalikes, known as "turkey" laws, so named because "turkey" is the street term for phony drugs. Probably no serious headway...
...frustrating mail strike, the second in five years, seemed to hinge on the relatively minor question of paid maternity leave. The Liberal Party government did not grant the Canadian Union of Postal Workers the amount it sought, and the posties eschewed envelopes for picket signs...
While Conservative Joe Clark, leader of the federal opposition, urged Trudeau to take drastic action to end the postal strike, the prime minister stood by the right to strike even as government negotiators took a hard-line approach at the bargaining table. Trudeau believes in the need to compromise in a federal system, but hsi hands-off attitude toward the postal strike helped cause a significant summer by-election defeat in a traditional Liberal stronghold...
Polish unionists, Catholic hunger strikers, baseball players, air traffic controllers, and postal workers have at least this much in common: without the right to strike, they have few ways to control their own destiny. Any attempt to wrest away that influence should be greeted by a concerted response. And the next time we are inconvenienced or deprived by a strike, we should remember that such actions speak for all those who are having the life squeezed out of them...