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...union-company role reversal ironic, but failure of UAW leaders to push through more concessions also dashed hoped that an era of "new cooperation" between companies and unions had begun with the 1979 "bailout" contract. Unions in the import-battered industrial mainstays of the U.S. economy--steel, autos, and rubber--seemed about ready to hold down labor costs in exchange for job security and more voice in corporate decisions. Such "cooperation" has been a central theme of recent "re-industrialization" plans designed to arrest the desperate decline of the U.S. economy, Sen. Gary Hart (D-Col.), for instance, has proposed...
...plot of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, which has yet to open in Boston, in turn follows the real-life story of bankrupt Irishman who dreams of producing the operas Carcuso in the Brazilian jungle. To raise the necessary capital to back his production, he decides to cash in on the rubber boom by taking a steamship to virgin tracts of jungle, carrying it a mile overland to an otherwise inaccessible river. The real Fitzcarraldo (so named because the natives could not pronounce Fitzgerald) cut a 20-ton steamship into 15 pieces to accomplish his made task. Herzog, in his reenactment, does...
...bodies were lifted from the agonized postures of sudden death and shrouded in brown blankets by volunteer civil defense and Red Cross workers, wearing gas masks against the stench and rubber gloves to fend off the toxins from the decaying flesh. Frantic clusters of Palestinians gathered around the rigid, pathetic bundles. From time to time, one of the onlookers would shriek in horror, catching sight of the distorted features of a friend or family member. At one point, a woman torn by grief stood over one of the bloated corpses waving a scarf and a handful of personal letters...
...Diaspora have shared a natural tendency to rally round the flag in times of crisis. With few exceptions, this has been necessary because controversy makes Israel easy prey for anti-Semites and anti-Zionists. But now, in the aftermath of Shatila and Sabra, Jews are refusing to rubber stamp Israel's policies. Doubt that was once kept inside is now expressed openly...
...labor in some key areas. Union negotiators must now trade higher wages for job security, restrictive work rules for improved productivity, cost of living escalators for guarantees against plant shutdowns. Over the past 18 months, workers have been forced to take less, not more, in the automobile, steel, rubber, airline, meat packing, printing, trucking and newspaper industries. Top union leadership claims that this is an inevitable consequence of the recession. Says AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland: "There are pressures that exist in this environment, and no one is immune from them...