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...problems as the taxpayers. had money troubles of their own. Although a strike by teachers is against the law m New York State, only five of the 630 staff members initially crossed the picket lines. Throughout the seven week of the strike, the teachers showed remark able unity and zeal: just one other decided to go back to work...
Many of Begin's Cabinet members are still opposed to any form of linkage. Some groused last week that Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman had "acted without authority" in their zeal to reach a settlement with the Egyptians in Washington. Later the Cabinet was the scene of an unusually angry argument over a plan by hawkish Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon to establish a big new Israeli settlement in Gaza. Many of Sharon's colleagues thought this a bad idea anyway; practically all of them were angry that his aides had leaked the details of the plan while...
...trade might be expected to subside. In fact, tempers seem to be getting worse, not better. Yankee businessmen complain that they are still all but shut out of the Japanese market, and more and more of the American consumers who buy the goods that the Japanese export with such zeal seem to agree. Pollster Louis Harris found that a strong (64%) majority are persuaded that the U.S. is getting shortchanged on trade, by Japan as well as by other countries. Today a good many Americans would applaud the exasperation confessed by John Nevin, chairman of Zenith Corp., in the latest...
...discussions. Monsignor Zdizislaw Pesz-kowsky, of the Polish-American seminary in Michigan, who has known Wojtyla for 24 years, says that while the new Pope is interested in the liberals' agenda?divorce, celibacy, women priests and the like?he "stresses that these problems must be dealt with by priestly zeal," not further compromise...
...their disposal vehicles. Anyone who has driven a car knows it is impossible to anticipate a drunk driver, or a bad storm. Those who do not recognize the untimely risks of nuclear power, especially in the light of their dire consequences, have blinded their common sense with zeal...