Ponovno predvajanje ponedeljek, 7. september 1981

News Analysis

Date: 08 September 1981

By William Serrin

William Serrin

The 100,000 marchers in the Labor Day celebration on Fifth Avenue yesterday possessed the energy and solidarity that a lot of people, including many labor leaders, believed had evaporated from the nation's working class. In the mood of the celebrants and much of the rhetoric, there was a suggestion that the enthusiasm could grow into a new movement among American trade unionists to oppose President Reagan's economic policies. Ten months ago, many union members voted for Mr. Reagan. Many still support him. But the parade was far more than a vestigial march to recapture the pride and militancy of the union movement of times past.

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News Analysis

Date: 08 September 1981

By John Vinocur, Special To the New York Times

John Vinocur

The bonds of compromise, opportunism and West German prosperity that have held the governing coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats together for more than 11 years are pulling apart. It has become a political cliche in Bonn for editorial writers to say that the coalition will not last until the next elections in 1984 - these days, half the stories in West German newspapers seem to be headlined, ''The Beginning of the End'' - but the reality is that growing elements in both parties no longer have the formula or a very intense commitment to maintain the association. After a month of intracoalition bickering over a new budget and over how the cou ntry should deal with the eco nomic stagnation that last month produced the highest unemployment figures in 29 years, theargument took on a new shrillness over the we ekend. Willy Brandt, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party, said he ''wouldn't put his hand in the fire'' and swear that the coalition would last. His voice cracking with emotion, he told a group of party members: ''We've been leaned on. It's gone to the limit of what Social Democratic self-respect allows! When it's necessary, it will be clear for everybody who is responsible in this!''

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Reporter's Notebook; Michael's Children Got News at Game

Date: 08 September 1981

By Jane Gross

Jane Gross

When Nancy Howser arrived at Royals' Stadium on Sunday, Sandy and Mark Michael were standing by the curb, waiting to pick up their tickets to the afternoon's Yankee game and eager to see their father manage his team to its eighth victory in 11 days. Mrs. Howser, whose husband was dismissed by the Yankees last fall and hired by the Royals nine days ago, realized immediately that Michael's children, both college students at the University of Kansas, had not yet heard the news of their father's dismissal. She dreaded the task of telling them, but she knew that she was especially qualified to comfort them. ''I told them that Gene was probably better off,'' Mrs. Howser said, ''and that there was nothing to worry about because George would take care of him.''

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1981

Date: 07 September 1981

International Solidarity must provide a program that will lead Poland out of its economic crisis, the leaders of the independent trade union said at its first anniversary convention. An official statement said, ''We have become convinced that we cannot stand idly by looking on at a breakdown of the national economy.'' (Page A1, Col. 3.) The Ulster hunger strike protest against Britain was weakened when the mother of a striker ordered medical treatment for him, following a similar case on Friday, and when the Irish National Liberation Army, a smaller but more hard-line guerrilla faction than the Irish Republican Army, announced that it was scaling down its involvement. (A1:4-5.)

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News Summary; TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1981

Date: 08 September 1981

International State supervision of Egypt's mosques is to be imposed as part of President Anwar el-Sadat's effort to halt sectarian strife. The gradual takeover affects 40,000 mosques. A total of 1,536 persons have been arrested and accused of inciting violence, directly or indirectly, between the Moslem majority and the Coptic Christian minority. (Page A1, Column 1.) An aid for Saudi bombing capability is being studied by a Reagan Administrationn panel. The issue, involving whether Washington should sell advanced bomb racks for Saudi Arabia's F-15 jet fighters, is not expected to be decided until late this year or early next year, according to officials. Approval of the proposed sale is regarded as unlikely. (A8:1.)

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YANKEE MANAGER ONCE AGAIN: ROBERT GRANVILLE LEMON

Date: 07 September 1981

By Thomas Rogers

Thomas Rogers

Bob Lemon decided on Friday at his home in Long Beach, Calif., that he needed a haircut. While he was sitting in his barber's chair, he listened to NBC's Joe Garagiola interview Gene Michael, the Yankee manager. The interview touched largely on the difficulties that Michael was having with George Steinbrenner, the principal owner of the Yankees. ''The barber was listening, too,'' said Lemon. ''He told me after it was over, 'You might be going back to work sooner than you think.' Then George called me later and asked me to come to visit him in Tampa, Fla. When I got there, George asked me if I wanted to manage the Yankees again. I said 'yep.' ''George has been awfully good to me. I'm still a company man. I never left. If he wanted me back as manager, that made me feel good.''

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POLISH UNION TO OPEN PUBLICITY OFFICE IN NEW YORK

Date: 08 September 1981

By Jane Perlez

Jane Perlez

A representative of Solidarity, Poland's in dependent trade union movement, marched in the Labor Day parade in New York yesterday and said that in two weeks he would open in New York the first foreign office of Solidarity. Zygmunt Przetakiewicz, 35 years old, said that he would be the managing director of a press and information office that would supply news of the union movement to American news organizations. Mr. Przetakiewicz, who speaks good English, arrived in New York two weeks ago and has taken office space at 260 Park Avenue South, the building occupied by the United Federation of Teachers.

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U.S. STILL ADAMANT

Date: 07 September 1981

By Steven V. Roberts, Special To the New York Times

Steven Roberts

On the eve of Labor Day, Reagan Administration and union officials exchanged charges today over the Administration's handling of the air traffic controllers' strike and the effect of the President's economic program on workers. In a Labor Day message today, President Reagan asserted that the goal of his economic program was ''jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs,'' stressing an issue that may be more important to many union members than the controllers' strike. But Lane Kirkland, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., asserted that Mr. Reagan's ''hard-fisted'' tactics in dealing with the controllers had demonstrated an insensitivity to the needs of labor. ''What remains to be established is, where's the rest of him?'' Mr. Kirkland said, alluding to a line in the movie ''King's Row,'' in which Mr. Reagan played a man whose legs were amputated. ''Where's the heart? And where's the understanding of these people's problems that will make it possible to have a decent resolution'' of the strike?

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Forecast on Rates

Date: 07 September 1981

AP

Interest rates will not fall much by the end of this year, Lee Gunderson, president of the American Bankers Association, said today.

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Another Ulster Inmate Joins Hunger Strike

Date: 08 September 1981

AP

A 25-year-old convicted killer joined the Irish nationalist fast in Maze Prison today.

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