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...striking air-traffic controllers, the debate heated up between the Reagan Administration and the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization over whether air travel is still safe. Asserting that there had been "a dramatic increase in the number of system errors and near midair collisions" since the Aug. 3 walkout, PATCO released a report detailing more than two dozen in-flight incidents and claimed there have been more than 150. But the Federal Aviation Administration said there were only eleven "near misses," compared with 31 during the same period in 1980.* Assured FAA Administrator J. Lynn Helms: "We have no reason...
...safety question was inevitably raised, however, by the first midair collision since the start of the walkout. Two small planes approaching the San Jose, Calif, airport smashed into each other two miles short of the runway, killing one person and injuring two others. Both pilots were flying under visual flight rules (VFR) and thus were responsible for keeping a safe distance from other aircraft. A PATCO official claimed that a San Jose controller had not informed the pilots of each other's positions, but a preliminary NTSB report absolved the control tower of any responsibility for the crash...
...When the walkout ended, the government first announced that the price of a loaf of bread would quadruple to about 50?, then announced a delay on the move. Trybuna Ludu reported that a meat-rationing program would be "reviewed" and that the present monthly allotment of 6.6 lbs. per person might be reduced rather than increased as had been expected. Solidarity spokesmen said they would continue to press for an economic reform package that would include subsidies for consumers with lower incomes. Otherwise, warned the union's Warsaw chapter, the price hikes could lead to "an explosion of uncontrolled...
...York Mets, 17 and 34 before the strike, spent a few heady days in first place after the season resumed, and found their new lease on life appealing. But the Cincinnati Reds, just one half-game behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West when the walkout started, suddenly found themselves running neck and neck with the San Diego Padres, who were 12½ games back and fading last June...
...scene outside two Massachusetts hospitals last week has become distressingly familiar at hospitals across the nation: nurses on a picket line. At Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, a walkout by 300 nurses last weekend resulted in a virtual shutdown of the facility, with only emergency room services being provided...