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...only nation irate about cease-fire violations. Canada, the chief Western member on the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision, has been so hampered by Communist obstruction that Ottawa is considering a walkout. Canada's External Affairs Secretary Mitchell Sharp flew to Indochina last week for a three-day tour of Saigon, Vientiane and Hanoi. His purpose: to size up the problems of Canada's 290-man mission to the ICCS. The U.S. is extremely anxious for Canada to remain, for, as one American diplomat put it, "there is no question that the Canadians have provided...
...fashionable boutiques along Paris' Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, ending a slump that had begun with the onset of the campaign two months ago. The strident warnings from the tough-minded Communist leader, Georges Marchais, that "strikes will multiply" if Gaullism continued seemed particularly ill-timed. A walkout of civilian air controllers had snarled air traffic all over France, and was at least partly responsible for the mid-air collision of two Spanish airliners over Nantes last week. One plane crashed, killing all 68 aboard...
...U.A.W. members cheered a settlement that, by Woodcock's admission, could have been won before the contract deadline, which meant that the strike itself was little more than a blue-collar catharsis. Be cause of the cost of the walkout and loss of overtime during the recession, relatively few eligible workers took ad vantage of the "30 and out" early-retirement program that was supposedly their major gain. Employee absenteeism soon returned to its normal 5%, and employee morale does not seem much different from that expressed by the worker who explained his frequent sacrifice...
With 536 signed student pledges to support the Union strike, the Union's steering committee last night set the strike date and planned a series of activities for next week intended to educate the Harvard community to the issues behind Monday's scheduled walkout...
Court of Common Pleas Judge D. Donald Jamieson issued an injunction to end the walkout. When the teachers ignored him, the confrontation got rougher. Some 317 teachers were arrested for picketing and will be arraigned for trial next week. Union Negotiators Frank Sullivan and John Ryan were jailed for contempt but were permitted to emerge each morning to continue negotiations, then returned behind bars at night. Teachers who continued to work (about 3,500 of the 13,000) suffered tire slashings and other harassment...