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...Western European countries last week were affected by strikes involving not blue-collar workers but professionals near the top of the economic pyramid. In Swedish newspapers, the walkout by a variety of university graduates was called "the luxury strike." To an unsympathetic French press, a work stoppage by members of flight crews from three airlines was "the strike of the rich...
...highest per capita income. Most enviable of all was the nation's record of labor peace. Except for one drawn-out struggle by iron miners in remote Kiruna within the Arctic Circle, it had not suffered a major strike since 1945, when metalworkers staged a five-month walkout. All of this seemed even more remarkable in light of the fact that virtually everyone in Sweden-even clergymen-belongs to a labor union...
...group-from New Orleans-has already made its peace with SDS by walking out of it. According to Ed Clark, a former member of PL and a leading organizer of the New Orleans group, the reason for the walkout was the defeat at the conference of two of its proposals calling for increased internal discussion in SDS. The first was a motion to devote part of New Left Notes "to ongoing political and strategic debates within SDS." This proposal was defeated in favor of one by staff members of New Left Notes which denied that the publication should...
...economists identified several pressures that they feel will prevent the nation from recovering its economic health as rapidly as the President and his advisers hope. All expect a fairly long steel strike. Alan Greenspan's forecast of a $1,047 billion G.N.P. assumes that a walkout will shut down the blast furnaces for eight weeks this summer...
Bellyful. If it does, it could bring a walkout of several Black African nations and possibly India and Canada as well. "If Heath goes through with the arms deal," said Uganda's Milton Obote, "he will be giving the Russians-and later the Chinese-an open invitation to go to Africa and replace the British and other Western powers...