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...walkout shut Israel's only international airport, diverted jets to Cyprus and Greece, stranded 1,000 passengers and brought a charge of "pure hooliganism" from Mrs. Meir. Since Lod, leaders of the government, the opposition and labor unions have been meeting to work out tighter laws covering wildcat strikes and walkouts by public employees. Last week, however, their discussions were still stalemated...
...seeking to force a rerun of the 1969 election on grounds that it was conducted illegally. Boyle is under indictment by the Justice Department, charged with illegally using union funds for political contributions. To add to Boyle's problems, another bloc called the Black Lung Association has threatened wildcat strikes if he does not raise his wage-and-benefit demands even further...
...Safeguards Demanded. Few Alaskans foresaw the delay in 1968, when Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) and Humble Oil brought in spectacularly successful wildcat wells at Prudhoe Bay. Reserves were initially estimated at 10 billion barrels, but are now figured to be 15 billion, fully one-third of the nation's total. In the race to begin drilling, supplies were airlifted round the clock by huge Hercules "stretch" freighters from Fairbanks. Adding to the "boomer" spirit, ARCO, Humble and British Petroleum announced plans to spend $900 million to build a 789-mile pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez. In a frenzy...
...five New York families are just emerging from a decade that left their tight paramilitary structure shaken and disorganized. The bitterness of past Mafia wars still lingers, especially between Colombo and Joseph Gallo, the volatile former Profaci triggerman whose defection sparked the 1961 war. He once kept a wildcat in his basement and, for luck, a dwarf on his payroll. Released last March after serving nine years for extortion, he returned to New York with a grudge against Colombo and heretical ideas about recruiting blacks into Mafia ranks. These have made him the subject of speculation regarding the shooting...
Tangled Feud. As if to underscore the most pressing of them, half of the nation's 95,000 union miners stomped off their grimy jobs for several days last week in wildcat strikes. They were protesting the court-ordered removal of United Mine Workers President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle from the board of the union's mismanaged pension fund. The union boss's forced withdrawal from pension affairs was the latest development in a tangled feud between union factions that has led to many lawsuits. Although the miners' grievance was with the courts, they followed...