Word: afl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helped the Californian not at all and damaged his own great ambitions to become an important party leader or, one day, President. By eagerly embracing almost all of Reagan's positions and promising to disavow the previous pro-labor stands that had made him a darling of the AFL-CIO, Schweiker came across as an opportunist. He spent most of his time in the campaign vainly trying to explain his complete flipflop...
Since he came to Congress in 1960 from suburban Philadelphia's Main Line 13th District, Schweiker has steered a left-of-center course that has helped make him one of the state's biggest Republican votegetters. So attentive has he been to his labor constituents that the AFL-CIO'S political action group, COPE, awards Schweiker a 100% rating and made him the first Pennsylvania Republican Senator to win its endorsement for re-election (in 1974). Among other things, he voted to repeal Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act, the right-to-work provision that...
...Southern Baptist thing still bothers a lot of people, including me. And Carter is an amateur surrounded by amateurs." But later he, too, softened: "At heart I'm a Democrat." Many more labor delegates shared the mood of Jim Mahoney, executive vice president of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO: "There will be enthusiasm for Carter. AFL-CIO President George Meany wants to go all the way for the Democratic ticket, and we're starting now, not two months from...
...crisis of the beleaguered Chilean economy was the result of an "international financial-economic blockade ... to prevent the exercise of our rights as a sovereign state." Allende also charged that the crucial decisions concerning the Chilean economy were made in New York. Three months later, a spokesman for the AFL-CIO testified to the Senate Finance Committee that the transfer of production overseas is making the United States "a nation of hamburger stands ... a country stripped of industrial capacity and meaningful work ... a service economy ... a nation busily buying and selling cheeseburgers and root beer floats...
...misconceptions Moynihan has foisted on an anomic public desperately wanting to believe in an American "purpose" are incredible. He claimed last October 3 at an AFL-CIO convention, that Israel is hated by the third world because it is a democracy. Moynihan did not mention the question of Palestinian refugees, the economic inequities visited on underdeveloped nations by Israel's chief backer, U.S. policy in Chile and Indo-China or the consistent support of the American government for South Africa and Rhodesia. Moynihan's reason for third world hostility toward this country sounds like something from the American right...