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...Overcome. Within minutes, they were themselves overcome, spirited away by the police. Since March, similar scenes have been re-enacted almost daily in Queensland, Australia's northeastern state, where 231 people have been arrested in protests against harsh new labor legislation sponsored by the state's right-wing Premier Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, 74, who is called "Jackboots Joh" by detractors. Among other things, the laws require unions to give up to seven days' notice of their intention to strike...
...walkout by power workers, who feared losing their jobs to outside contractors. Clergymen and civil rights and labor activists, who see the legislation as a threat to Australian unionism, have joined in the protests. Recently the unions blockaded the state's transportation links for 24 hours. Sir Joh afterward attacked the unions as a "bloodthirsty lot trying to grind down the community." Said he: "They do not realize their days of threatening and bullying people in this state are over...
...sir, you want to go to Europe? First class? Economy? Standby? Leave Friday? Return Sunday? Less than three weeks? Round trip to and from the same city? Stopovers? Do you want a hotel as part of the deal...
Acquisitors Carl Icahn and Sir James Goldsmith were also on the prowl last week. Goldsmith, who controls Grand Union supermarkets and France's L'Express magazine, formally offered more than $800 million for up to 70% of Crown Zellerbach, a forest products company that has been fighting off the interloper since December. The day after the Goldsmith proposal, Icahn said he would pay $305 million for 51% of Uni-royal, a tire and chemical manufacturer, which immediately spurned the deal. The moves were only the latest in an increasingly frenzied round of takeover brawls and mergers. Last month Capital Cities...
...consequences. I don't feel that we should pull out and come home. As far as going north, we know there are 200 million in the Chinese army. If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them...