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Before he could fly to Yugoslavia to attend Tito's funeral, King Carl XVI Gustaf needed special dispensation from striking air-traffic controllers at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport. That was one ironic consequence of the most disastrous union vs. management quarrel in Sweden's history. Nearly a million people-a quarter of the work force-had stayed off their jobs in the third consecutive week of labor disruptions. Some were on strike, others had been locked out. As the country faced economic paralysis, airports and most urban public transportation shut down. Only one major port, Halsingborg, remained...
...approach. Many Swedes fear that the government's hands-off policy spells economic doom. But at week's end strike-bound Swedes were heartened by news that mediators had proposed pay boosts ranging from 6.8% to 7.3%. With that offer, an end to Sweden's costliest quarrel could finally be at hand...
Typically, Reagan did not push this quarrel to its practical conclusion. Instead of making good on his threat to cut back state support of the university system, he permitted its annual budget to grow from $240 million to $509 million in eight years. He approved a 190% increase in state support of California's public colleges and hiked state aid to local schools by 119%. Many California educators now rate Reagan's successor, Jerry Brown, as more tightfisted and tougher to deal with than Reagan...
Though it remained essentially a propaganda war, the quarrel between those traditional rival powers of the Middle East, Iran and Iraq, threatened last week to turn into open warfare. Following several days of mounting tensions, sporadic clashes broke out across the 700-mile Iranian-Iraqi border. Then, to the momentary alarm of capitals around the Middle East, an air battle erupted in the border area between Iraqi helicopter gunships and several Iranian Phantom jets and helicopters. There were also reports of increased military activity at Iraq's two main naval bases: Basra, on the Shatt al Arab...
These are the Palestinians: nearly 4 million Arabs, the majority living in exile, who claim as their birthright both the land of Israel and the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. The quarrel between the Israelis and Palestinians involves a tragic, seemingly irreconcilable conflict of competing nationalisms. The Jewish claim to most of this same area is also justified by historic and religious roots...