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...their countries. The two men met at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Syria severed diplomatic relations with Jordan in 1980, and the situation became even more strained after Jordan's Hussein put together his Feb. 11 agreement with P.L.O. Leader Arafat to reach a negotiated Middle East settlement with Israel. The signs of rapprochement between Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad raised the long-term possibility of an even more broadly based regional peace...
...employees. The weary union leader had good reason to be pleased. In a final, 42-hour bargaining session with Chrysler officials, Bieber won increases in wages and benefits that will put the company's union workers back on a par with their counterparts at Ford and General Motors. The settlement brought an end to the concessions Chrysler's workers made to help the now thriving company get through its financial crisis during...
Chrysler's top negotiator, Thomas Miner, pronounced the company "pleased" at the settlement. The strike, which began Oct. 16, had been costing the company an estimated $17 million a day. While the price tag on the new contract will be a daunting $1 billion over the next three years, the company was in no position this time to play tough with its workers. Morale has suffered because blue-collar employees felt they were missing their share of the company's bounty. The firm last year had profits of $2.4 billion, and is expected this week to announce hefty third-quarter...
...breathy voice achieving sonorities like those of a train whistle in the distance at midnight, gives the news from a tiny, some say imaginary, Minnesota farm hamlet called Lake Wobegon, "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve." The same sturdy but hard-to-find settlement is the subject of Keillor's new book, Lake Wobegon Days (Viking; $17.95), a pack of beguiling lies that has been on the New York Times best-seller list for ten weeks and, with some 700,000 copies in print, is the publishing sleeper of the year. Keillor has written memorable...
...typical kidnaper, in fact, is one of the child's parents. Says Harvey Greenberg, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City: "Most kids are abducted by one of the parents who is unhappy about the divorce settlement." Increased awareness of the dangers children face, not just from kidnaping but from sexual exploitation as well, is, of course, well worth teaching, if done wisely. "But you do this," says Greenberg, "without scaring a child out of its wits...