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...Washington last week, the three-member board of monitors, set up by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to oversee Teamster affairs, confronted President Hoffa with an order to get rid of Joey Glimco. The monitors want Hoffa to suspend Glimco from the presidency of Local 777 and have the local's financial records audited by a reliable firm. Among other things, charged the monitors, Glimco...
Given Spain's economic history, the most impressive part of the program is that which concerns discipline at home. Though credit has already been tightened to such a degree that many industries have h,ad to suspend payment of debts, it will get even tighter. Spain has agreed to remove controls on a long list of imports, will set acceptable "global quotas" on others. The government has also ordered a six-month amnesty on the return of all fugitive capital in the hope of rebuilding cash reserves...
...immediate beneficiaries: 1) William G. Barr, named to head the Office of Rent Stabilization in 1953, and sued for telling the press that his "first official act" would be to suspend two employees who had been mixed up in a manipula: tion of ORS funds; and 2) Admiral W. E. Howard Jr., who, as commanding officer of the Boston Naval Shipyard, reported to Congressmen-with copies to the press -that the shipyard would soon withdraw recognition of a union, and was sued by the union...
...hour week, for a 10% raise and a 40-hour week. Employers' groups flatly rejected them, later made an unacceptably low offer. The unions refused arbitration, called the walkout instead. Most provincial papers-about 1,100 weeklies and 87 dailies-soon were forced to suspend operations completely. Others put on the old school try, produced truncated editions using midnight oil and ingenuity...
...kept up their insistent demands for office. But last week the left-wing National Democrats, the only political party with open representation in the Cabinet, and a party that has often worked in the past with the Communists, decided "in response to the opinion of the Prime Minister" to suspend political activity...