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Unfortunately, that sentiment is a luxury for more than 6 million Americans-mostly blacks and Hispanics, women and youths-who are unemployed. Pressure from imports in many industries, notably steel, clothing and electronics, threatens more jobs. Along with rising cries for protectionism, there are some encouraging attempts at selfhelp. The shutdown of an old Youngstown Steel plant devastated that Ohio city, but municipal leaders and Youngstown Steel employees have begun a search for a new owner and are investigating a plan to take over the plant and operate it as a community-owned enterprise...
...Meany has told associates that the leadership of the United Mine Workers is inept. He also figures that the two-to three-month inventory of coal that has been stockpiled by utilities and steel companies will enable the operators to hold out until the union eventually knuckles under, a sentiment shared by the coal companies. The 165,000 striking union members, mostly in Appalachia, account for only half the nation's coal production. There are growing numbers of nonunion miners, largely in the West, and most will keep right on working...
...That sentiment, written by British Author Hilaire Belloc, may well be echoed by the authors and publishers who send some 60 volumes per week to the TIME Books section in the hope that their works will be reviewed. As Christmas approaches, the incoming stream becomes a torrent in anticipation of our annual section on gift books, which appears in this issue. The new volumes-on subjects ranging from Peruvian highways to Sumerian icons, from precious plants to psychic phenomena-are delivered to the office of Books Editor Stefan Kanfer. "It's like getting a lot of Christmas cards...
...assess the impact of the front, TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof visited Bradford, a sooty Yorkshire mill town that once was known as "the wool center of the world." Bradford is typical of declining industrial cities with a growing race problem, and pro-front sentiment is strong. Amfitheatrofs report...
...been beaming that message at Japan for months. In September, Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps visited Tokyo and warned of growing protectionist sentiment in the U.S. A few weeks later in Washington, Vice President Walter Mondale shocked a group of Japanese politicians. They interpreted Mondale's remarks as constituting a charge that Fukuda had lied when he pledged a reduction in the trade surplus...