VL-IV (15) Tubal Nuances, pages 355/356, 370/371, 377/378

[rich]

On 4/21/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> So much of what happens in the last chapter of Vineland depends on the
> kinds of scripts we followed on the Tube. The author at the same time
> is ramrodding us with some of the most outrageous parodies of the re-
> framing of history offered up by the Tube.
>
> 	. . .Rumors filtered back from the cabin that the air controllers
> 	down there sounded like they used to in Vietnam, none of the
> 	usual civilians were on the job, and there was heavy traffic on
> 	all the military frequencies. . .
>

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Reagen fired the all the striking air traffic controllers in 1981,
considering the importance of such a job a pretty reckless thing to do
beyond the union busting

rich