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...party (ZANU-P.F.) of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980, he and Joshua Nkomo, 64, the portly, outspoken head of the opposition Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), have coexisted uneasily. Last week their shaky truce was shattered. Nkomo was unceremoniously stripped of his rank as Minister Without Portfolio in the Mugabe government, a post he was demoted to a year after Nkomo's party won 20 parliamentary seats in the 1980 elections (vs. 57 for Mugabe's). The accusation against Nkomo: conspiring to overthrow the government by force of arms...
...between the Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers raced through the union ratification process last week like a greyhound chasing a mechanical rabbit. By midweek, the agreement had been approved by the U.A.W.'s international executive board and the Ford unit council meeting in Chicago. Decisive rank-and-file endorsement is this week by the 160,000 U.A.W. members who are Ford employees, with the contract going into effect March...
...prospects for a settlement at General Motors are not good. Nearly half the GM work force of 330,000 is on indefinite layoff, and relations between the union and management are strained. GM wants to reopen talks, but there may not be much support for that from the rank-and-file union members. Union people complain that General Motors Chairman Roger Smith has a paternalistic attitude toward them. Industry analysts now consider a September strike at GM a real possibility. If GM begins boosting car production in May, despite the current sales slump, it will be a sign that...
...populated by eccentrics and obsessives. Allie pays $400 for an abandoned jungle settlement called Jeronimo. "It's about as unimportant as a place can possibly be," he says happily. "You talk about starting from scratch. Well, Jeronimo is scratch." Within weeks, Allie's manic energy transforms a rank, overgrown clearing into a neat, well-ordered community. As he keeps improving his creation he boasts, "The Iron Age comes ... A month ago, it was the Stone Age ... digging vegetables with wooden shovels and clobbering rats with flint axes. We're moving right along...
...hand, the next task is to strive to Molloy's ideal of the "power-user." These are real sweet guys. They strut about all day stressing their high rank. When they get a promotion, they immediately stop eating lunch with the guys they've been eating with for years ("Not doing this is one of the main mistakes women make"). They assert their power by going up to secretaries' desks and reading things from the desk without asking...