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...line is to use them in their battles, and the children recognize this. Here, as in Lebanon and elsewhere, children are often deliberately placed at the head of demonstrations, marches and funeral processions. Their mere presence gives moral authority to the cause. A booklet under the prosaic title Rubber & Plastic Bullets Kill & Maim contains pictures and stories of child victims; the more brutal the better. Such devices work especially well in Belfast, where everyone gives the impression of knowing everyone else, where people like Paul and Bernadette achieve a dubious celebrity for having had their lives shot out from under...
Indonesia has failed to diversify its exports away from raw materials and has been hurt by falling prices for timber and rubber. The country relies on income from oil exports, but its petroleum reserves may be exhausted within 15 years...
...atmosphere is far different from three years ago, when those unions last bargained. At that time the auto workers won an agreement that has pushed their pay up 15% in each of the last two years and the rubber workers got a contract that will be worth about 50% over three years. The trend-setters this time will be fighting a rear-guard action to avoid giving up gains made in past negotiations rather than bargaining for important new pay hikes...
...depression in autos has been a severe blow to the rubber industry, and weakened the bargaining position of the United Rubber Workers union. Over the past two years, 18 tire plants have been closed and 25,000 jobs eliminated. Says Ralph Eifert, Firestone's vice president of employee relations: "We're in difficult times. We know it, and the unions know it too." The four major tire manufacturers (Goodyear, Firestone, B.F. Goodrich and Uniroyal) want to reduce paid holidays and other fringe benefits and cut back on cost of living adjustments...
...Rubber workers are not expecting anything like the settlements they have known in the past. Says John Nardella, president of Goodyear Local No. 2 in Akron: "Workers are pessimistic as hell...