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...stunningly expensive to send a magazine or newspaper through the U.S. mails. After a series of rate increases calculated to make each class of mail pay for itself, publications today pay about 100% more for their second-class postage than they did in 1971. By next year, if current Postal Service schedules hold, the increase could mount...
...fall, for example, grain handlers on the west coast around Vancouver struck for seven weeks. They returned only after the Canadian Parliament imposed a settlement and after Japan and China had shifted some orders for grain-Canada's most important export-to the U.S. and elsewhere. The national postal system was weakened so badly by periodic rotating work stoppages last year that some mail sent in November is only now being delivered. Sorters in Montreal post offices continue to stage wildcat strikes in hopes of winning a gargantuan 71% pay increase and halting automation...
Such self-abnegation has not yet been reflected at this year's most important bargaining tables. At last week's opening of negotiations covering 600,000 postal workers, whose contract with the Government-owned U.S. Postal Service expires July 21, union leaders insisted on higher pay increases and a stronger cost-of-living escalator clause to protect their members against future inflation. Five railway unions have rejected a hefty 41% wage and benefit boost offered by management, forcing the Ford Administration to order a 60-day postponement of a threatened nationwide rail strike...
...Postal Service. Flying on to Egypt after two days in Jerusalem, Kissinger sought to determine what "intangibles" Sadat could offer Israel. One possibility was an aide memoire of some sort formalizing the Egyptian President's recent statements, made during his visit to Paris and in Aswan to members of TIME'S Middle East news tour, that neither Egypt nor Syria would attack Israel first. Other possibilities discussed included lessening of the longtime Arab economic boycott of Israel and establishing airline flights and possibly postal and telephone connections between Cairo and Jerusalem. Kissinger and Sadat apparently agreed that some...
Mailed Profits. To take advantage of the mail statute, the prosecution needed only to prove that the U.S. postal service was used to further a fraudulent act. Former mayoral Press Secretary Earl Bush, for example, was nailed for neglecting to reveal his ownership of an advertising company that held major contracts with O'Hare International Airport. Bush's $202,000 in profits from the company were mailed...