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Ignoring the plea of their chief, delegates to the convention of the Transport and General Workers' Union last week voted for a motion that effectively scuttled the landmark agreement on wage restraint between Britain's unions and the Labor government of Prime Minister James Callaghan. The vote to demand substantial wage increases was a deep personal humiliation for Jones, who in 1973 had helped draw up the agreement. In a weary voice, he declared that the TGWU action would lead to "a wage scramble, renewed inflation, increased unemployment and new trouble for the pound...
...worried variously about high taxes, inflation (current annual rate: 21%), and the political gains of the Communist Party. As many as 254 Swiss banks or branches located in Ticino compete fiercely for these loose lire. Some of the banks are suspected of collaborating in the smuggling, either by providing transport or by bribing low-level diplomatic officials to make currency runs in their cars, which are exempt from border inspections...
...keeping with its grandeur and technical sophistication, it has produced unprecedented engineering, financial, environmental and legal headaches. Not all have been alleviated; surprisingly, in view of the U.S. energy pinch, the pipeline's operators are most uncertain where they can market all the oil that the line will transport (there has even been talk of shipping some to Japan). Nonetheless, this week-nearly a decade after the project's conception and more than three years after construction started-the Alaska pipeline begins carrying its first oil through nearly 800 miles of forbidding wilderness, from Prudhoe Bay north...
...parties, it may take him more time to assemble a Cabinet; most of the Likud deputies have not had government experience. Begin himself has served as a Minister only between 1967 and 1970; and his campaign manager, former Air Force Commander Ezer Weizman, 52, has been a Minister of Transport...
...tactics are pretty much the same, I guess. We "leg" soldiers have to move fast, but the new utility transport helicopter and the armored combat vehicle are improvements over the old armored personnel carriers (we've got that type around...