Word: settlement
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Sniper Shots. Though many independents stayed home or picketed peacefully, the week leading up to the settlement exploded in violence as the more mindless owner-drivers tried to sweep the highways clear of trucks by intimidating nonstriking truckers. One driver, Claudie Nix, 50, was fatally shot in his moving truck near Bridgeville, Del.; earlier, another driver was killed when a large rock was thrown at his windshield and his truck crashed. Other truckers have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds; the most recent victim was Lawrence Huff, 48, who was wounded in the stomach by a sniper as he drove...
When election talk first surfaced last month, Heath deferred his decision for another go-round at a settlement with the miners-and with good reason. British voters are about evenly divided between the country's two major parties, and there was no certainty that Heath's Tories could pull off a victory. The latest Gallup poll last week in fact gave Labor 42%% of the vote to the Tories 39%%. That was a reversal of January's poll, when the Tories led Labor by 40% to 38%. Said the Opinion Research Center's Chairman T.F. Thompson...
...week's end there was one slender hope for an eleventh-hour settlement. Reversing an earlier decision, Heath set a new meeting for this week with the Trades Union Congress, which represents 10 million workers, and the Confederation of British Industry, Britain's largest manufacturers' association. He has asked them to consider a possible compromise based on a "pay relativities" study just issued by the National Pay Board. The study provides for a public inquiry board to recommend wage boosts on the basis of working conditions and the national importance of the industry. Under such criteria...
...Syria was getting conflicting advice from other countries. Visiting Damascus last week in the course of an oil-hunting, arms-dealing swing through Arab countries, French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert told Syrian officials that he "understood" their positions. Jobert cautioned them against depending on "foreign efforts" to obtain a settlement. Palestinian guerrillas were also vocal in urging Syria not to settle. Their newspaper Falastin al-Thawra called for Arab solidarity against Israel and said, "Victory will be the lot of those who are long-winded and capable of enduring...
...Egypt's foreign investment laws, encouraging outside businessmen and guaranteeing their investments won't be nationalized. In the same liberalization move, Sadat denationalized Egypt's movie theaters and made it easier for them to import American films. Between Lawrence of Arabia and Exodus, he hopes that popular support for settlement with Israel is bound to grow...