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...still angry about 1972, when the bulk of the 24 million tons of grain and soybeans sold to Russia was shipped in vessels belonging to foreign countries. This time the unions want Administration assurances that 50% of the Russian-bound grain will move in U.S. ships manned by American seamen. More broadly, the unions want the Russians to stop cutting cargo rates as they have been doing recently. U.S. and Soviet officials have been negotiating the issue, but no agreement is in sight...
...sounds like the 1972 rip-off all over again, and we won't stand for it," said the Longshoremen's Thomas Gleason, referring to the Soviet purchase of 19 million tons of U.S. grain three summers ago. "Nobody is going to be ripped off," Butz assured the seamen. Said Don Woodward, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers: "It's the criticism of these sales to the Russians that'll bring on higher food prices, not the sales. All those complaints amount to an open invitation to jack up prices...
...villages are magnets to the seamen, because the prostitutes live there. A house wall-papered with a 1971 Sears, Roebuck catalogue soon became the sailors' hangout, because it was big as houses go in the villages, with two rooms and a six-foot ceiling (when often two or three whores work a single room in shifts), and because the prostitute who lived there had an ice chest that was a cornucopia of beer. Her proudest possessions were the kerosene lamp on the table in the front room and the stack of fourteen bars of soap beside it. Raised...
...bridge was nicely symbolic, too. It spanned a ravine that divided Pointe Noire into a city and a village. The city was where the seamen were, sitting in the wicker chairs and on the foam pads beside the Atlantic Palace Hotel's swimming pool, as obsequious white-coated waiters served them gin and tonics. All they needed were pith helmets and cigars to put the scene back 20 years, when paternal Europeans were prodding their adopted African children into the mummifying swathes of apron strings. But the apron strings have rotted in the heat and humidity. The people...
Picking up the Healey gauntlet, several union leaders responded by asking for even higher wage settlements, the most astronomical being the National Union of Seamen's demand for an 81% increase. The knee-jerk cycle continued last week as an incensed Healey threatened to levy still more taxes-a move that provoked left-wing Labor M.P. Norman Atkinson to call publicly for new party leadership...