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...curious thing. Now that the Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns showdown is a reality, all the talk centers on what will happen after the fight. The New York Times reports that there will be three Leonard-Hearns fights. The Boston Globe promises that after he beats Hearns, Leonard will give middleweight champ Marvin Hagler a well-deserved payday. The New York Post claims that Leonard will retire after the September bout--win, lose or draw...
Next may come either another fiscal crisis in the school system or a showdown over school integration. New budget cuts may be needed...
Disaster, however, soon struck. McCardell decided to provoke a showdown with the United Auto Workers, the company's major union, over changes in the work rules. Workers at International Harvester, unlike those at such competitors as Deere and Caterpillar, had no compulsory overtime, for example. McCardell claimed that the work rules and other inefficiencies had cost the company $1.3 billion over the previous three years and vowed to make some important changes. But on Nov. 1, 1979, 35,000 workers walked out rather than accept the new work rules. The strike, which became the longest in U.A.W. history, lasted...
...Syria and Israel braced for a violent showdown that could bring war to the region once again-and one, moreover, that conceivably could drag in the superpowers-the U.S. and the Soviet Union moved swiftly to restrain their respective allies. Caught in the middle, as always, battered Lebanon waited anxiously for others to settle its fate...
...raised the ante. In a highly visible and provocative action, the Syrians moved missile launchers carrying Soviet-made SA-6 surface-to-air missiles into the Bekaa Valley about three miles from the airbase where the helicopters had been downed. Now the scene seemed to be set for a showdown...