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...scene was an all too familiar tintype of armed repression and political turmoil, a fitting symbol for the upheaval of the decade. Staccato bursts of gunfire echoed through the streets. Clouds of tear gas hung in the air. A phalanx of blue-shirted policemen, equipped with gas masks and steel helmets, blocked the avenue in downtown Guatemala City. They trained their rifles on the six unarmed men who were advancing, like prisoners of war, with their arms held high. One of them clutched a large manila folder. Its contents: a letter to Guatemala's outgoing President, General Fernando Romeo Lucas...
...warden stops. Silhouetted behind him is a high metal fence topped by barbed wire. He peers suspiciously into a barred window. Inside, everything is dark and quiet. Only the heavy breathing of the sleeping men is audible. Through the black of night can be glimpsed twelve steel cots that have been pushed together and stacked to the ceiling in the cell. Earlier the prisoners had formed a choir. Singing through the slightly opened window, they had intoned: "Unto Thee, Lord, we call: restore a free Fatherland...
...piano hammers in the background as the residents of "Steeltown, U.S.A." battle the manipulations of the inexorable, cigar-chomping "Mister Mister" (David Reiffel). Mister Mister owns the factories and the town newspaper and heads the union-busting Liberty Committee, his wife bribes the preacher to fan war hysteria so steel prices will stay high, while his henchman track down dirt on the heroic labor-organizers who are trying to bring about a social revolution. Their speeches are not just background color thrown it to give characters an excuse for passionate devotion or to propel a romantic plot Rather they...
Instead, the unions directed their wrath toward the European Community, which last week issued an important rebuff to a Belgian plan to restructure the nation's archaic steel industry at a cost of $1.1 billion and 5,000 lost jobs. Two major trade unions in Wallonia promptly began a weeklong series of strikes and demonstrations...
Martens fears that the Community decision could revive the smoldering cause of linguistic separatism because the ailing steel industry is concentrated in French-speaking Wallonia. Says he: "All the tensions surrounding the regional balance in the country have been provoked again." That, in turn, could threaten the :ntire recovery program. Martens' four previous governments collapsed over linguistic or economic disputes...