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...blockade was in place even before daylight broke over the smokestacks of Lorraine. Gangs of workers erected more than 120 barricades of coiled sheet steel throughout that eastern region, sealing off the major towns and shutting the border crossings to West Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. Factories were idled; stores, banks and public offices were closed and shuttered. In Nancy 10,000 marchers took to the streets, in Longwy 15,000, in Metz 20,000. In a dramatic climax to nearly a week of unrest, the entire region was delivering an ultimatum to President François Mitterrand: repeal a draconian...
...into the zone of early-morning sun, is a prime lyric invention; and the color has a resonant, hallucinated distinctness that brings early Mird to mind. Balthus would eventually paint some of the best landscapes of his time. The pick of them, perhaps, is Larchant, 1939, with its luminous sheet of sky and its mellow, precise inter-lockings of building, field and mound...
While the Girl Scout cookie incidents have not inspired the type of national scare caused by the Tylenol deaths, several communities have taken precautionary action. The Maine state agriculture department has asked Girl Scout officials to postpone further sales and deliveries of cookies until a warning sheet can be printed and distributed with the packages. In the St. Louis area, where eight cases of tampering have been confirmed, the Girl Scouts have offered refunds on roughly 1.5 million boxes that have already been delivered and sold for $2.6 million. The organization's St. Louis council, the largest...
...fourth biggest, will sign a consent decree requiring the merged company to sell off two Republic plants in Gadsden, Ala., and Massillon, Ohio, within six months after the deal goes through. The Alabama plant makes hot-and cold-rolled carbon and plate steel, while the Ohio one produces sheet stainless steel. The Justice Department said that paring down the production capacity of the new company will put the agreement within its antitrust guidelines...
...decision earlier this month by U.S. Steel and National Steel to withdraw their merger plans helped LTV and Republic win Justice Department support. If both deals had occurred, the two new companies would have controlled 50% of the U.S. sheet-steel market. For now, though, the U.S.-National deal is dead...