University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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July to December 1981 Strikes, U.S.-style There was the threat of a postal strike, but it was averted at the last minute. 'm There was a baseball strike, and it wiped Mm?- out half the season. y UMM But it was the air traffic controllers, thhw strike which provided the Reagan ad- 5.5135; ministration and the country with its big- hi' gest challenge. On Aug. 3, the Profes- sional Air Traffic Controllersi Organiza- tion iPATCOi, whose membership made , up 8570 of the nations 17,500 federal employees who direct air traffic, called a m strike. The issue, they said, was wages, early retirement, and a shorter working week. The issue, said the president, was .Mbdlt that they had no legal right to strike. USUW The result: They all got fired. ' - t1: The government called out its own g; u. tttroopsii - military air traffic controllers, C? E .HIF. and air traffic supervisors - to man the W towers along with the remaining 2,000 bk controllers who had stayed on the job. 5T! The amount of air traffic allowed off the .da ground each day was reduced to 7570 of $'7 normal flow, and the PATCO union was N k' broken financially by fines imposed by my judges around the country totalling in the .w Ii millions of dollars. Union leader Robert de E. Poli called the actions ttthe most bla- WW tant form of union-busting I have ever i seen. But public opinion seemed against Eff; his union, and in the remaining months 5 . g of 1981 the country made do without the Biz! skill of its members. Jijl Q It was. however,ironic that Reaganis iM first major labor battle was waged against gig: very middle class Americans, Hpillars of up? the community, as Poli called his peo- . W ple. Many of them had regarded Reagan d'uv. as their man, and had voted to put him in d ! the White House. The fight was no less bitter for it. $760 ,,,,, WW iow144? x y we m- T. . 3 0W M Be Debhakam 15

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5 Vi. The Royal Wedding On Wednesday, July 29, 1981, at 11 a.m., at St. Paulis Cathedral, Lon- don, England, the wedding took place of H.R.H. Charles, Prince of Wales, 32, and Lady Diana Spencer, 20, a ttcommonertt from a well-connected English family. It was a major event by any standards: as the future monarch of Great Britain, Charlest marriage was bound to attract a lot of attention. But two ingredients spiced up the occasion, turning it into a media event of im- mense proportions. First, the bride was young and beautiful and second, the timing of the wedding was perfect, com- ing as it did when Britain was being besieged by street riots in several cities in England, and civil disturbances in Northern Ireland. Somehow, everyone seemed ready for the good news. Millions tuned in, sharing in the romance being marketed and packaged by the British into a show of shows which only they could put on. It was estimated that 750 million peo- ple - one sixth of the worlds population - watched the royal wedding on televi- sion. They became familiar with all the minutiae surrounding the occasion, and they wallowed in it: the mystery recipe for the official wedding cake, which was 4V2 feet high and weighed 225 lbs; the secrecy shrouding the wedding gown until that final moment when Lady Di descended from her glass carriage out- side St. Paqu to reveal a silk gown with a 25 ft. train; the fireworks display, claimed to be the largest Britain had seen in 250 years; the fact that Charles had to stand on a box behind his bride- to-be when posing for their engagement portrait since her height made it difficult for him to achieve that toweringly royal look. One correspondent described the whole affair as a 16th century pageant rolling through 20th century London. And the world enjoyed every second. i'x $ t x x a - - . ex hney abhhhh ;s ---- -y Denise Moore