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There are indications of trouble in the public sector. Financially strapped states and municipalities must grapple with increasingly militant unions, and experts fear tough negotiations and possible strikes. Secretary of Labor Usery, concerned that the sophisticated skills of contract bargaining are rare in the public sector, calls it a "tinderbox...
This is a tinderbox of a play blazing with wit, paradox, parody and, yes, ideas. It is exhilaratingly, diabolically clever. The bloodline of Wilde and Shaw is not extinct while Tom Stoppard lives...
...would all make abundant sense if everybody hated it in New Orieans, if there were a perpetual atmosphere of crises, if the newspapers could call the city a tinderbox, it people left the city in droves-but none of that happens. No riots, no suburbs to speak of. Things work out, people go their way, and to deal with it all you can talk about architecture or you can talk about images. If youn wanted to try to rationalize you could say that New orleans is more spread out than most cities, that vitually all buldings where people live...
Even Dr. Pangloss would scarcely contend that this is the best of all possible worlds in the U.S. summer of '75. Though the economy shows some signs of recovery, 8.5 million Americans looking for jobs cannot find them, including nearly half the black teen-agers in the tinderbox ghettos. Inflation, though abating, continues to gnaw at the income of those who have work. Oil prices will go up; state and local governments seem in danger of going broke. From the Middle East to Korea, the world remains a hazardous place. And yet there is in the land a sense...
...launch a second in retaliation. The Russians will undoubtedly try to match the advances, thus triggering yet another escalation in the arms race. Warns Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, director of the Center for Defense Information: "If both sides have a first-strike capability, the world is a tinderbox." But Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, advised his colleagues to give President Nixon "running room" and bargaining chips at the arms limitation talks. SALT will be a major item at the summit conference when the President visits Russia at the end of the month...