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Fears of rising interest rates spread through Wall Street late in the week and led to a 14.7-point one-day drop in the stock market. The sell-off appeared to have been triggered in part by predictions of rising credit costs. The Dow Jones industrial average closed last week at 1183.29 after falling nearly 50 points during the preceding ten trading days...
...After Figueiredo's speech, which seemed to confirm the public's fears, Joaquim Dos Santos Andrade, president of the São Paulo Metalworkers Union, said: "This is the best way to throw more wood onto the fire." A coalition of 31 metalworker unions called for a one-day nationwide strike this week...
Negotiations over the contract to replace a three-year pact that recently expired resumed last week following a brief one-day strike and sit-in by workers. Those actions capped off months of delays and disagreements between Harvard and Local 26 of the International Hotel, Restaurant--and Bartenders Union, which represents the dining hall workers and is one of the most militant of the unions at the University...
This summer could see an epidemic of illegal taping. Several potential blockbusters are being released in addition to Jedi, which last week rang up the biggest one-day box office in history ($6.2 million). Other surefire sequels: the 13th James Bond film, Superman III and Staying Alive, the follow-up to Saturday Night Fever. Says William Nix, who heads the antipiracy division of the Motion Picture Association of America: "These films have built-in demand for illegal copies. The damage could be the worst ever...
...Marxist revolution stopped for Easter weekend, then Easter Monday, then went back to work just long enough for another national one-day holiday to watch a cricket test match before taking the weekend off. That was after Grenada declared a "national alert," announcing that a U.S. invasion was imminent. But while U.S. ships were supposed to be unloading counterrevolutionaries onto the beaches, the People's Revolutionary Government was still encouraging neighboring Trinidad's yachtsmen to hold their annual regatta there. When the Trinidadians asked, naturally enough, if their boats might not run into the U.S. Marines, they were...