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...makes regular journeys to Asia to line up new suppliers. He recently added several factories in China to a list of manufacturers in South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Knight has revived a bit of the American shoe industry by establishing plants in Exeter, N.H., and Saco, Me. He expects that Nike sales will continue moving as fast as the champion runners in his shoes...
...civility (including a gentlemen's agreement never to surprise the opposition) and an elaborate system of centralized wage negotiations designed to keep the government's role to a minimum. The current dispute developed a month ago, when the 110,000-member Central Organization of University Graduates (SACO) and the 20,000-member Central Organization of Civil Servants (SR) began a series of strikes after four-month wage negotiations broke down. The impasse developed from the unions' demands for pay boosts of between...
...Times, for example, one of those reopened mills closed last week. One article detailed how paper mills in the Pacific Northwest took the smell out of making brown paper, with the implication that Maine's mills should do the same. Another story started a cleanup of the Saco River by pinpointing 39 specific sources of pollution along its 125-mile length. In recent weeks, the paper single-handedly fought to ban snowmobiles from the virgin wilderness of Baxter State Park -successfully...
...country rails, U.S. trolley buffs have put some 300 relics back into mint condition and occasional service. The revival started in Maine back in 1939. For old times' sake, three Bostonians rode up to Biddeford one Fourth of July to be aboard the last run of the Biddeford & Saco Street Railroad's Car 31. At the end of the line, they spontaneously passed the hat among the passengers, added enough of their own money to make $250, and bought the car at the price it would have brought for scrap. They moved it into some pasture land...
...Crag," by Lo Kuang-pin and Yang Yi-yen. This 420,000-word blockbuster, set in Chungking in 1949, "describes the bitter struggle between the people and the U.S.-Chiang reactionaries." Its critical scenes occur "behind the bars of the so-called Sino-American Co-operation Organization (SACO), a big concentration camp jointly operated by the U.S. imperialists' secret service and its lackeys, the Chiang gang. They use all the most diabolical means of torture to crush the will of the captured Communists...