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...many Americans an Easter holiday in the Caribbean is a pleasant way to forget the cares of the world for a few days. Their President is not so lucky. The reasons go well beyond the fact that Ronald Reagan, for image-building purposes, felt obliged to turn his five-day jaunt to Jamaica and Barbados last week into a "working vacation" that featured meetings with leaders of some of the area's island states as well as a bit of swimming in the turquoise waters. Whether in unseasonably cold Washington or under the blazing Caribbean sun, Reagan could...
Matters would never again be quite that simple for him, although he began by winning an extraordinary concession from the government on a strictly labor matter: a five-day work week, granted on Jan. 31 after decades of six-day work weeks in Poland. But that only aggravated the economic crisis by further reducing production?especially in the coal-mining industry, whose output fell by nearly 10% in 1981. In addition, the country was soon swept by a spate of wildcat strikes over local issues. In some cases, Solidarity chapters were taking on the Communist Party bureaucracy by demanding...
...growing number of seminars attempt to deal with the explosion in technological and scientific knowledge. Among the 8,128 continuing medical education courses available this year, doctors can choose such seminars as a five-day sports medicine conclave at Honolulu's Princess Kaiulani Hotel, or a three-day course in "Management of the Acute Cardiac Patient" at Chicago's not so glamorous Cook County Hospital. Colleges and universities have also entered the seminar business. At U.C.L.A. 1,800 people paid $80 each last spring to attend weeklong symposiums on molecular biology...
WORK WEEK. Poli sought to cut the five-day 40-hr. week back to a four-day 32-hr. schedule?a reduction the controllers seem to want more than pay increases. While they apparently would not accept a salary cut to compensate the Government for their reduced hours, most PATCO members see this issue as the key to lowering their on-the-job anxieties and enhancing safety. The Government at first refused to consider any shortened work week, fearing that similiar demands from other federal workers would start a budget-busting trend at a time of general spending cuts...
Just before the nation's schoolchildren were let out for a five-day holiday to join in the festivities, the resentment turned into outright violence. Sections of railroad were blown up by terrorist bombs outside Johannesburg and Durban. In East London, black nationalist guerrillas lobbed a hand grenade into a police station and raked the building with automatic-rifle fire. Two days later, other saboteurs set off an explosive device at a South African Defense Force recruiting center in Durban...