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...split came primarily over disagreements over the grass roots organizing stlye favored by Rondeau as opposed to a more rapid proceedure favored by the UAW. Rondeau said her staff had attempted to build an internal organization within Harvard and to work on a "personal basis with Harvard employees." She argued that the UAW was pushing too hard and had not established a solid local foundation...
...cognoscenti await McManus' appearance in magazines and books (Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1983). The 30 pieces assembled here run a bucolic gamut of outdoor misadventures. The author recalls his encounter with an inept wilderness guide: "Once he got us so lost I resorted to firing three shots in rapid succession. But the light was bad and I missed him." At other times McManus offers addled expertise. He tells new husbands how to build up a gun collection without attracting the attention of their wives. Hint: get the little woman to stop counting rifles and start thinking "all those guns...
...year for lack of coverage. In Blue Island (pop. 22,000), a Chicago suburb, citizens held a noisy meeting last month to debate a 30% tax increase. Reason: the city's insurance premiums had jumped from $175,000 to $435,000 in one year. In July the Southern California Rapid Transit District came within nine hours of idling its 2,500 buses for lack of insurance. The annual premium rose from $67,000 to $3.2 million...
Still, Gorbachev has given little public sign of recognizing what nearly all Western experts, and a few in the U.S.S.R., consider the prime necessity for any rapid rise in Soviet living standards: a loosening of the suffocating central controls on what and how much is produced and at what prices. In the interview, he declined even to repeat the sharp criticism of past failures in economic planning that he has voiced inside the Soviet Union. That may merely reflect well-advised caution by a leader who has seen past efforts at reform, notably Andropov's, sabotaged by the bureaucracy...
...Daniels increased their sales from $1.1 million in 1979 to $4 million in 1981. Business collapsed when the Government reclassified the gun as an automatic weapon in 1982, but the Daniels got around the restriction by marketing a $300 MAC-10 kit that could be used to build a rapid-fire pistol with parts available from another company. In June a grand jury in Fresno, Calif., indicted the Daniels and two others on charges of conspiring to manufacture and market the parts for making illegal automatic weapons and silencers...