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Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government and Director of the CfIA, said yesterday it was "highly unlikely" Turner's statement would affect foreign research...
...threatened suspension is the result of a complicated and increasingly bitter dispute between the newspapers and their unruly production workers. Unauthorized work stoppages and slowdowns have cost the papers 12 million copies and $5.6 million so far this year. Infuriated, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization Ltd., which has owned the Sunday Times since 1959 and the Times since 1967, has forced a showdown. Thomson executives announced last April that they would give the unions until Nov. 30 to agree to sweeping reforms in work procedures, or else the papers would close down until they relented. All of Fleet Street...
Foremost among the Thomson demands is an end to the wildcat disruptions that have earned the Sunday Times, hardest hit by job actions, the nickname Some Times. The papers' 54 chapels (bargaining units) are also being pressed to accept manning reductions and cost-saving new technology. In exchange, management is offering higher wages and better benefits. The two papers intend to trim 700 or more of their 4,300 workers over the next three years through attrition and voluntary retirements...
Bolstered by profits from newly developed North Sea oil ventures, the Thomson Organization is clearly capable of withstanding a protracted closure. Although he takes pains to deny it, Company Chairman Kenneth Lord Thomson of Fleet, 55, is said to be less sentimentally attached to the papers than was his late father, Roy, the first Lord Thomson, who considered the acquisitions of the Times (est. 1785) and the Sunday Times (est. 1822) to be the pinnacle of his career...
Ultraconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., 66, has dominated New Hampshire politics for three successive terms. In league with powerful right-wing Publisher William Loeb, Thomson has kept the Granite State free of both a sales tax and a personal income tax, the only place in the nation where neither levy is imposed. But this year, shortly before the election, 80,000 utility bills were mailed out across the state with a special surtax to pay for the controversial Seabrook nuclear power plant. Thomson had refused to veto a bill prohibiting that special charge and was suddenly cast as a less...