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...federal Pay Board seemed well on its way to becoming the laughingstock of Phase II. Having set a guideline of 5.5% annually for wage increases, board members proceeded to approve labor contracts that called for first-year pay boosts of at least 15% for coal miners and 14% for railway signalmen. Last week, however, the board decided to show some New Year's resolve. By a vote of 9 to 5, the labor-business-public group rejected an aerospace agreement that would have provided an immediate 12% wage increase for some 150,000 workers...
...attempt to force unity of the two Irelands through guerrilla warfare. On Monday morning alone, a dozen explosions ripped Belfast. Among the damaged targets were the city's best hotel (the Conway), a clothing factory, a furniture store, a supermarket, an antique shop, an insurance office, a railway station and a television-rental company. Next day bombs blasted two pubs, a laundry and a bicycle store...
Tougher Stand. A stiffening attitude is also evident on the Pay Board. In two previous rulings, the board's five business representatives sided with its five labor representatives in approving coal miners' and railway signalmen's contracts that were far above its 5.5% limit. Stung by criticism that they were knuckling under to labor to avoid strikes, the businessmen are now taking a tougher stand. They plan automatically to challenge all wage settlements above 7% in the second and third years of long-term contracts signed before the August freeze. Getting such boosts approved has been...
...show his guests, including a brand new international airport at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania. He also took some of his visitors on a 20-minute train ride to mark the inauguration of a completed 312-mile section of the 1,150-mile TanZam railway, which Tanzania and neighboring Zambia are building with the help of a $406 million interest-free loan from China. Only one thing marred the festivities: a raid on Dar es Salaam by two mysterious planes that showered the capital with antigovernment leaflets. The airdrop was thought to have been organized by supporters...
Died. Andrei Andreyev, 76, former deputy of Joseph Stalin and one of the Soviet Union's most durable Old Bolsheviks; in Moscow. Virtually unknown outside the U.S.S.R., Andreyev was a ruthless administrator who, as head of the nation's outmoded railway system during the early 1930s, ordered malingering workers shot. Later entrusted with responsibility for postwar farm collectivization, he was blamed by Stalin for agricultural failures and purged from the Politburo. However, he re-emerged shortly after the dictator's death as a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a post he held...