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...immediate cause of Mudge's pull-out was a dispute over national holidays. Four of ten red-letter days on the current Namibian calendar are of South African origin, and Mudge had proposed keeping only dates of purely local significance. Among the holidays to be dropped was the Dec. 16 Day of the Vow, a commemoration of an 1838 victory by white Afrikaners over the Zulu nation in the Battle of Blood River. Members of Namibia's white minority (75,600 out of a total population of more than 1 million) complained, and South Africa vetoed the legislation...
...whole reached a record $2.5 billion, and though no major steel producer currently faces imminent bankruptcy, some analysts give the weakest of them, including such venerable giants as National Steel (1981 sales: $4.0 billion), and Republic Steel (1981 sales: $4.3 billion) as few as six to eight calendar quarters before they run out of money...
...music director spends only part of his life conducting in an orchestra pit. Excerpts from Levine's hectic calendar...
...Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky, are being conducted behind a veil of secrecy, West Europeans have been watching assiduously for any hint, wink or nod that might reveal how the talks are progressing. Reason: one of the most emotionally charged issues of the 1983 international calendar, namely whether NATO will deploy 572 new U.S.-built nuclear missiles starting next year to respond to the buildup of Soviet intermediate-range SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe. What NATO will do hinges on the outcome of the negotiations; so when word was leaked from Washington last week...
Elaine Rosell, who appeared in the calendar as a golden girl, said she didn't think the pictures were sexist, and felt instead that they mocked sexist pinups...