Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon before he flew to Europe, President Eisenhower thoughtfully drew a State Department policy paper out of the ''urgent study" pile on his desk. Its contents: a report on the Communist guerrilla bands swarming antlike out of Red China's puppet state of North Viet Nam into the Utah-sized nation of Laos (see FOREIGN NEWS). This "very dangerous" situation signaled the revival of full-scale guerrilla warfare in Indo-China for the first time since Red China agreed at Geneva in 1954 to stop it. The President, approving State's recommendations, cranked up machinery...
...another change of attitude seems in the making. The Dalai Lama, sitting in exile in Mussoorie, had been warned to create no embarrassment for India. But he has been increasingly upset by news he has heard from Tibetan refugees making their way to safety in India. They report that thousands of monks have been placed in Red labor camps, that the vast Tibetan monasteries have been left in the hands of a few quislings, and perhaps 80,000 Tibetans have been killed by the Chinese...
...figures were a vindication for that small corps of Sino experts gathered in Hong Kong who, in the face of Chinese claims, had surmised a great failure and had reported food shortages in the cities while Peking was talking of vast stockpiles (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). And, as many Western observers had already suspected, the highly touted backyard steel furnaces proved a fiasco. None of 3,000,000 tons produced was usable in industry, confessed Peking. Between the lines could be read the bitter admission that the commune system had resulted only in pushing China's luckless peasants...
Pointing a finger at both sides, the report noted that rises in steel prices (up 178% since 1940) and wages (up 85% since 1950) have been much sharper than in other manufacturing, and that steel wages ($3.10 an hour) are far above the manufacturing average ($2.23). Furthermore, steel's productivity from 1947 to 1957 rose only 3% a year, v. 3.1% for all manufacturing. That was an unspectacular performance, both by steel workers whose wages have been rising by an average 6.4% a year, and by steel management, which claims that it is spending so much to boost...
...Week. In a subtle prod to union and labor, Jim Mitchell announced that he still had other statistics-some of them perhaps more telling-that he intended to dribble out to keep up the pressure. At week's end he released another report stating that the impact of the steel strike "has been severe and is expected to be felt increasingly in weeks to come." The number of jobless workers in steel-related industries has risen to about 125,000-60% in railroads and coal mining-and 75,000 of them have applied for unemployment aid. But there...