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...government had sounded its finale in the kind of unruly Cabinet session that had become a hallmark of his 3½ years in office. The issue had originally seemed relatively benign: a pay raise for the country's 65,000 teachers, approved earlier by a blue-ribbon committee. In the Cabinet, however, the salary question provoked a collision between two stubborn antagonists: Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, who was determined to forestall any new wage spiral that would further boost the country's 140% hyperinflation, and Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, who felt equally committed to the teachers. Each vowed...
...other side was Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, a rising figure in the National Religious Party, which is a major partner in Begin's four-party Likud coalition. Supporting the teachers, Hammer insisted that the government had already agreed to abide by the recommendations of a blue-ribbon committee that had taken up the teachers' demands after a strike two years ago. Besides improved fringe benefits, the committee had endorsed pay increases that ranged from 30% to 60%. The teachers presently earn an average of $200 a month. The panel recommended that their pay be upgraded to the level...
Such provocative prose is not usually found in blue-ribbon commission reports, which are generally filed away and forgotten. But this commission, set up by Carter in October 1979 at the recommendation of Retired Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, intends to have impact. Its chairman, former Columbia University President William McGill, admits that his 50-member group wants to "think the unthinkable." Says McGill: "We forecast for the '80s a very difficult era in which [U.S.] resources will not be equal to demands. If there is anything we have attempted to do, it is to force...
...most looked reasonably healthy. And now their voices could be heard. Some sat beside the monsignor at a long table in a sparsely decorated-and thus unidentifiable-room. Only a Christmas tree brightened the scene. It was adorned with trinkets made by the Americans and topped by a yellow ribbon, a traditional American symbol of separated sweethearts. Some read statements into microphones; others spoke without notes. A few sat in easy chairs and looked into the cameras. Some stood alone. In the films, obviously censored once again, the voices were sometimes clipped abruptly. The shots of Robert Ode showed...
...horn-rimmed glasses, Kathryn Koob of Jesup, Iowa, sang the third stanza of Away in a Manger. Her voice cracked and quavered. "Be near me, Lord Jesus," she sang, as she asked her nieces and nephews to join in at home. "I ask thee to stay." Wearing a yellow ribbon in her dark hair, she said a shade more firmly: "I'm feeling good and I've lost weight, for which I'm grateful." Her hostage roommate at an undisclosed location, Elizabeth Ann Swift, appeared more controlled. "Merry Christmas to the whole family," she said. "Kate...