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Peoples said although the union did not gain the concessions it wanted, he has learned a great deal from the negotiations process. "I have learned much about the people I must deal with and about their frailties and weakness, and will in the future utilize these weaknesses to the best...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Dining Workers Veto Strike, Vote to Accept Contract Offer | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

The pragmatists have gone to work. The Washington Post editorialized this week that the raids were probably necessary for Ian Smith to persuade his constituency that he would not bargain from a position of weakness. The Post lauded the pragmatists currently in control of the U.S. foreign policy establishment who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grim Prospects | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

These problems, jarring as they are, are still essentially cosmetic. The real weakness of the novel is in its Pollyannaish attitude towards the real problems of men and women. Having decided that men are O.K., Brown includes a few of them in her book; all except the evil Rifes (a...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: A Half Dozen of the Other | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

Shevchenko's easy exposure has embarrassed the CIA. One of its former top officials complained that the agency handled the case "like a bunch of Keystone Kops." It is also quite possible that the CIA has been relatively lax with Shevchenko because he has been far less valuable as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Saga of a Decadent Defector | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

And so it goes. Henry and Julia find the mother lode of gold, romantically as well as financially. Temptations to escape the marriage present themselves to both Henry and Julia, but after initial weakness, man and wife go back to each other in the end. Moone has his way--the...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: A Misbegotten Marriage | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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