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...Prime Minister made the revelation himself before a Royal Commission appointed by his government to investigate the Ivanov-Combe connection and Australia's national security. It was the first time an Australian Prime Minister had ever testified in such a hearing. From a green-padded, tubular steel chair in the witness box in a converted government office in Canberra, Hawke responded to questions for four grueling days...
...Bethlehem Steel helps laid-off workers find new careers...
...rapid decline of the once mighty American steel industry has made messes out of thousands of lives. Workers who have lost their jobs must often cope not only with disruption and financial strain but also with intense emotional turmoil. One steelworker spent nine days in bed after being laid off. Some berate spouses, drink destructively, abuse children or even try to kill themselves. Wives sometimes become hysterical. One unemployed steelworker's family sought counseling because its child had stopped speaking...
...latest quarterly reports of the two biggest steel companies sum up the grim state of the industry. U.S. Steel lost $112 million during the April-June period; Bethlehem lost $93 million on top of its nearly $1.15 billion deficit in the fourth quarter of last year, the largest ever for any American company. For the men and women who still make steel, the loss reports are ominous at the very least. For the 104,000 steelworkers already laid off, the bad news underscores what they have long known: perhaps as many as 30,000 of them will never again work...
...Anaconda Copper has long since closed its "hospitality rooms" in Montana's state capital at Helena; Florida's rural "pork chop gang" must now share power with the arroz con polio and corned-beef crowds, and it has been quite a while since anyone has accused U.S. Steel and the Pennsylvania Railroad of manipulating the Keystone State...