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...Bedardo Sola, a staffer who was laid off and then rehired by Harvard subcontractor ABM OneSource, spoke to the crowd in Spanish. Daniel Brasil Becker, a representative for the Service Employees International Union Local 1615, interpreted Sola’s remarks...
...compared with 605 cases during the same period a year earlier under the Bush Administration. In Los Angeles, the designer-clothing company American Apparel fired about 1,800 employees in September following an ICE audit of employee records. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., the contract company ABM fired about 1,200 unionized janitors after a similar investigation...
...Discussing the ABM treaty, Lieut. General James Abrahamson, director of SDI, said that his program might confront "a problem in terms of the narrow interpretation of the treaty somewhere in 1989," two years earlier than previous Administration estimates. Perle declared that a new, looser interpretation of the ABM treaty, one that would permit the development of SDI technology, "is going to happen within the lifetime of this Administration." Although Nitze assented that the less restrictive interpretation was correct, he denied that it was Administration policy to apply...
...delegations, Chief Soviet Negotiator Viktor Karpov presented proposals that made an explicit connection between reducing offensive weapons and limiting strategic defense programs. The plan amplifies an informal one the Soviets made last month that sought to set limits on America's SDI program through maintaining continued adherence to the ABM treaty. In making their offer, the Soviets have done precisely what U.S. officials have been wanting them to do for months: quietly present a serious plan that contains points of flexibility and possible concessions. "In the past few days," said Nitze at the TIME conference, "there have been a number...
...group of 48 Senators who have signed a letter asking for a $2 billion cut in money for SDI, arguing that funding should be kept to "approximately 3% real growth." Some legislators are reluctant to fund SDI because they see it as the death knell of SALT II, the ABM pact and arms control in general. Aspin predicts that Congress will freeze this year's $2.8 billion SDI budget. The members of the House Armed Services Committee, he says, rank SDI as a low priority. In the Senate, a subcommittee working on the SDI funding proposal cut $800 million from...