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...weeks after it collided with a West German ferry, the French container ship Mont Louis still lay on its side last week in 45 ft. of water, eleven miles from the Belgian coast. Gale-force winds and 15-ft. swells had broken it in two, raising fears that 30 steel containers filled with uranium hexafluoride, raw material from which nuclear fuel is made, might be swept out of the ship's holds into the sea. Then the bad weather broke, salvage operations resumed, and by midweek the first of the containers, originally destined for the Soviet Union, was winched...
...hurt the industrial states of the Rust Bowl. Despite attempts to diversify into new industries, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri are still heavily dependent on the auto industry. Michigan factory towns like Pontiac and Flint, now enduring unemployment rates of 18.8% and 12.4%, respectively, could suffer an economic earthquake. Steel, rubber and glass producers could lose their biggest customer. GM, for example, buys about 10% of all the steel produced in the U.S. Sales in stores and restaurants are likely to slip when striking workers stay home, and tax revenues will slide...
...addition, the automakers have been trying to increase efficiency and productivity by replacing blue-collar workers with steel-collar ones-robots. Over the past three years, the Big Three automakers have installed 3,000 robots to handle welding, painting and other tasks previously done by U.A.W. members. As company executives like to quip, those new workers never take coffee breaks and always show up for work on Monday...
...bird, it's a plane, it's (Can you see it coming?) Superman in a plane. Christopher Reeve, 32, who soared to fame as the Man of Steel, is starring next in The Aviator as a rugged, '20s mail pilot. His plane crashes, and Reeve is marooned on a mountain with the companion able Rosanna Arquette. Reeve, an experienced pilot who has soloed across the Atlantic, did all his own flying in the film, a claim he cannot make about his earlier aerial incarnation...
...foreign copper entering the U.S. In turning down a recommendation by the International Trade Commission to grant protection, critics charged, Reagan was trying to sustain a free-trade image in the election campaign by ruling against a small, shrinking industry. Politically less safe will be his decision on steel-import quotas, due by Sept. 24, which 240,000 unionized steelworkers are anxiously awaiting...