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Meanwhile, the government is also being criticized for the continuing unrest along its northern border with Lebanon. A suicide car bomber drove into an Israeli armored patrol in southern Lebanon last week, wounding two Israelis and killing one Lebanese civilian. Israel quickly retaliated with an air strike on the headquarters of a radical Lebanese group that has claimed responsibility for seven car-bomb attacks on Israeli positions. Peres is said to be ready to adopt stronger antiterrorist measures. "There is no place for incitement and hysteria," Peres said. But, he promised, "there will be no compromise" when it comes...
...staffers promptly voted to stage a one-day strike this week to protest the cancellation. The Association of British Editors called the BBC action "a betrayal of its own best traditions." Declared an editorial in the liberal daily Guardian: "The portents for the future are bleak. A Prime Minister or Home Secretary can denounce something they haven't seen and watch the BBC watchdogs slink to the back of their kennels...
Still another source of pressure at home was the decision by black miners to declare a strike on Aug. 25. Cyril Ramaphosa, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, announced that his union would walk out of 18 gold mines and eleven coal mines unless the Chamber of Mines increases the pay hike that went into effect on July 1. That increase ranged between 14% and 19.6%, but the union wants an across-the-board raise of 22%. The union claims it can get 240,000 workers to walk out. The Chamber of Mines, the trade association that handles...
...British Broadcasting Corporation began some radio transmissions early last Wednesday morning with an apology. For many viewers and listeners, it was about the only news they got that day. For the first time in 63 years, news programming on the BBC was silenced. The cause: a 24-hour strike. Workers at most of Britain's independent TV and radio stations walked out in support...
...estimate that the country's annual inflation rate will reach 30,000% this year. One of the new President's first acts was to announce an austerity program that included devaluation of the peso and renegotiation of the country's $4.8 billion foreign debt. ITALY The Mafia's Double Strike...