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...nerger talk has made labor suspicious. A spokesman for the UAW declined to comment on the merger but one told TIME neither company has approached the UAW. "No one has talked to us about it," said the official who asked not to be identified. "I don't see what we get out of it. We're both way too dependent on trucks and sport utility vehicles," noted the union official who represents Chrysler workers at a plant near Detroit. There are fears that a merger would simply be a way to reduce the workforce. Chrysler has eliminated 22,000 jobs...
...representatives responded with questions and proposals for improving safety. Following a string of crimes and community alerts in the first month of the semester, students have become more concerned about their security, but Harvard University Police Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley and HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano downplayed fears of an extraordinary crime wave. “There is no crime wave here,” Catalano said, adding that students have become more aware and fearful because of HUPD’s advisories, which are mandated by federal law when there is a continuing...
...Austrian television on Saturday was dominated by somber reports and early footage of his political career. Austrian President Heinz Fischer, a political opponent, nevertheless called Haider's death a "human tragedy." "For us, it's the end of the world," a tearful spokesman from Haider's party, Stefan Petzner, told reporters in Klagenfurt. "Joerg Haider was a politician who changed the face of politics in this country...
...Iceland's financial institutions, among them Landsbanki, which went into receivership this week, and Kaupthing, the country's biggest bank, which was nationalized on Thursday. After the British government used antiterror legislation to freeze Landsbanki assets (these laws were simply "the most efficient mechanism available," a Downing Street spokesman explains), Iceland's Prime Minister Geir Haarde protested. "Not many governments would have taken that very kindly," he said. His counterpart in London appears unabashed. "We will take further action against the Icelandic authorities wherever that is necessary to recover the money," said Prime Minister Gordon Brown...
...would put the lives of the 20 hostages aboard the ship at risk, is worth a potential catastrophe. "If they attack us, we will defend ourselves and the situation will worsen. We will fight until only a drop of blood is left in our bodies," Sugule Ali, the pirate spokesman, tells TIME from the deck of the Faina. "We believe that humans die once. They have weapons, and we also have weapons...