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...most significant bargaining, between the nation's ten biggest steel companies and 375,000 members of the United Steelworkers union, is already in progress. Last year, in what was hailed as the start of a new era in labor-management relations, the union and the companies agreed to submit to binding arbitration any unresolved bargaining issues in order to avoid strikes or expensive stalemates. Already, however, union members are insisting that the guaranteed wage boost of 3% annually included in that agreement must be sharply increased. The miners, led by Arnold Miller, who will be negotiating his first contract...
...Sirica urged the Government's prosecutors to put certain Nixon officials "under oath in the grand jury room." At least one, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, had been permitted by the prosecution to submit a sworn statement to the grand jury in lieu of testifying. "I am still not satisfied that all of the pertinent facts have been produced before an American jury," Sirica declared. He reminded the prosecutors of a list of persons he wanted them to question again...
...attention. More, he did not hesitate to differ with Nixon's approach on several important matters. He urged the White House to produce all documents that would be necessary to clear the President. When asked what he would do if, like Prosecutor Cox, he had been ordered to submit to a "compromise" that would cut off further Watergate investigation, Ford replied: "I would prob ably do the same." That is, he would refuse the President's order. All in all, the ordeal of digging and grilling enhanced Ford's standing with the Congress and with the nation...
...TIMES does not completely submit to the New Journalism but the temptations are there. A potentially informative piece about the Irish Republican Army in the November 30 issue degenerated into a runny first person--"If Seamus killed the soldier, I thought, I would have no choice but to grab the rifle and shoot the other three," writes Richard Boyle, who then fails to explain either factionalism within the IRA or the great number of White Papers and Amendments and Laws to which he constantly refers. The reader learns almost nothing of Northern Ireland, or the intricacies of Irish politics...
Shockley, a Nobel laureate in physics and self-proclaimed geneticist, said in the debate that intelligence in blacks is directly proportional to their percentage of "Caucasian blood," and that the U.S. government should give cash bonuses to people of below-average intelligence who submit to sterilization...