Steelyard Blues: New Structures in Steel
UnpublishedJanuary/February
1979
Volume:
13
Number:
1
Updates
Barbara Durr
Six months ago it was unimaginable that Cuban exiles would
line up to return to their native land readied for anything but full-scale combat. Less thinkable was the idea of exiles calling for an end to the 17-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba. Back on the island, the release of the counter-revolutionary prisoners was equally unexpected by the Cuban people.
Robert Barros
Argentina and Chile have temporarily avoided going to war over the Beagle Channel. On January 8, in Montevideo, Uruguay, the two countries agreed to resubmit their dispute to mediation, this time to the Pope, and to withdraw troops from their 2,600 mile border Conflict over possession of three small islands in the mouth of the Beagle Channel brought these otherwise like-minded regimes to the brink of war in mid- December.
Ralph Rivera
At the outset of this past fall's East Coast apple harvest, most of the almost 1,000 Puerto Ricans who had been recruited as apple pickers by the U.S.
Report
Helen Shapiro and Steven Volk
In 1901 a series of high-level mergers effectively terminated the era of active competition in the U.S. steel industry. The United States Steel Corporation, or "Big Steel," as it came to be known, was the powerful progeny of three of the largest...
Helen Shapiro and Steven Volk
It's going to take a lot more than publicity campaigns about the evils of foreign steel to get U.S. mills on the road to recovery. It's going to take some $15-30 billion to modernize and expand a tired, worn-out industry. The question is...
Helen Shapiro and Steven Volk
Developing nations ought to be learning how to feed their people, how to cloth their people, how to house their people, how to educate their people. In- stead, they want to be major steel producers like us.
And they 'reforcin ' more work on ya. It's knocking off men, makin' cutbacks here and there to save money.