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While Washington Correspondent Gary Lee interviewed PATCO Leader Robert Poli, White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett monitored Government strategy on the strike by interviewing Administration officials, including Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis. Says Barrett: "We had known that the Administration would take a hard line. But it was only when we watched Reagan making his statement in the Rose Garden that we understood how hard a line it would be." In Los Angeles, Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate charted industry reaction as he ate an economy-class lunch at the desk of Continental Air lines President George A. Warde. Meanwhile, Photographer...
...stopped traffic throughout their nation's largest city, openly defied a government warning about provoking conflict, and told the country's political leader that they will wait him out if he does not change his policies. This is, on a larger scale, exactly what the men and women of PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) are doing in America. Some of the Poles, the bus drivers, for instance, would even be striking against the government if they staged their protest in this country. So why is Reagan saluting them...
...goal, however). But there is much it can do, and no better time than the present to do it, when the nation's attention is focused on the controllers. Every other major union in the country--especially the AFL-CIO, which represents so many public sector employees--should back PATCO, and with more than words. If need be, a general walkout should be called, beginning with the unions nearest in occupation to the controllers--the pilots, the ticket clerks, the porters. And, if necessary, the rest of organized labor should follow...
...embassy in Tehran. Jimmy Carter had just announced a program of sanctions against the Soviet Union, including an embargo on shipments of grain to the U.S.S.R., and U.S. longshoremen were balking at handling any Soviet cargoes. Then, Local 160 of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) posted a notice on a bulletin board at the Kennedy tower urging members not to guide Soviet or Iranian aircraft in or out of the airport unless specifically ordered to do so by one of their Federal Aviation Administration superiors...
...number of others were refusing to provide any information to the investigators except their names, ages and home addresses. Anthony Maimone, head of Local 160, insisted that human error or mechanical failure was to blame and accused the FAA of "blowing this thing out of proportion." Said a former PATCO official: "I just cannot believe that a controller who was not certifiably psychotic would do a thing like that." Whatever the case, said Gabriel Hartl, a spokesman for the Air Traffic Control Association, only an "act of God" averted a disaster...