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...illegal strike in 1981 that led to the mass firing of 11,400 of its members, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) paid the price of failure: it disbanded. For the past three years, as their ranks were gradually rebuilt to a current level of 12,000, most federal air controllers have been without union representation. Now, just as the Federal Aviation Administration is preparing to lift the last of the strike-related traffic restrictions from the airways, three groups of controllers in New York and the Washington area have petitioned to reunionize. Their complaints: overwork and FAA mismanagement...
Before Jerusalem's reunification, the Jewish Quarter in the Old City was almost totally destroyed. A simple arch rising from the ruins of the Hurva, the most prominent of the old synagogues, is a deliberate reminder of the ravage, and a rebuilt quarter is emerging as a showcase for a new architecture of context. About a third of the residential work was done by internationally known Moshe Safdie, who teaches at Harvard and has done some of his best work in Jerusalem. It is as "modern" as anything touted in the architectural magazines, yet disciplined by the unique constraints...
Reagan's principal message was that the U.S., prospering again economically and enjoying rebuilt military strength, is experiencing a rebirth of pride and hope. "Bipartisan cooperation," presumably from a Congress that had passed most of the Administration's essential legislation, he said, had stopped "a long decline that had drained this nation's spirit and eroded its health." Now, he said, the U.S. is "looking to the '80s with courage, confidence and hope...
...over Lebanon last week, Assad has forced both the U.S. and the Soviet Union to become more deeply and more dangerously entwined in the Middle East muddle than perhaps either superpower would like. After its humiliating rout by Israeli forces during their 1982 invasion of southern Lebanon, Syria has rebuilt its stock of military hardware to even greater levels with help from its chief sponsors, the Soviets...
...been back at Taliesin long before the house again burned down, this time destroying hundreds of valuable things Wright had brought from Japan. Again he rebuilt Taliesin. Then his second wife, Miriam Noel, left him. Before he was able to marry Olgivanna, the soft-voiced, Montenegrin woman who is his present wife, they and their baby were incredibly harried by the newspapers, the Noel lawyers and the police, who jailed them in Milwaukee Wright could get no work, could earn no money. Taliesin fell into the hands of a bank. Wright got it back only when a group...