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...living bonus to 25,000 printers and production workers. Since installments of the bonus had already been paid, deductions from future paychecks would be necessary in order to keep the wage standstill completely intact. The newspaper union was outraged. Said a spokesman: "The government sows the wind and will reap a whirlwind in due time...
...Disorder. If the Guards get their orders mixed up, the reason is understandable: their instructions are often conflicting. For example, last week began with editorials in People's Daily, the official party publication, ordering the Guards drastically to curtail their activities, and to leave the peasants alone to reap the harvest. Yet later in the week at an other monster rally, under the smiling gaze of Mao, Lin Piao congratulated the Guards for "acting correctly." Following Lin, Chou managed in one speech to tell the Guards to 1) stay away from the farms, and 2) go and help with...
...palace, and flew him to Bahrain in a waiting R.A.F. plane. "Our priorities are many," Zaid said at week's end. "We need a deep-water port, an international airport, hospitals, schools and town planning, plus some parks for the people. From now on, the people will reap the fruits of our prosperity...
...author of this book read an article in Kommunist, an official Communist Party periodical published in Moscow, deploring the fact that the party structure had never been thoroughly analyzed in print. Then and there, Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov decided to correct the oversight. The result will not reap any literary honors, for it is heavy-footed. And, as Avtorkhanov himself admits, the book will not win the Lenin Peace Prize either. Em bedded in its dense pages is the conviction that the free world can never get along with Communist Russia...
...sudden transformation was wrought by the prospect of petroleum deposits on the Tyonek Indians' 27,000-acre Moquawkie reservation. Even so, the ill-clothed, disease-ridden villagers needed pluck as well as luck to reap the benefits. They also needed the dedicated help of Attorney Stanley McCutcheon, 48, onetime speaker of Alaska's territorial legislature, who, as a young man, had befriended the Indians on business trips to Tyonek, and was determined to keep them from being exploited...