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...band of husky Teamsters from Ohio, in matching white T shirts, followed in a menacing way. Instead of limiting salaries, the delegates awarded Williams a $69,000 annual pay increase, bringing his salary to $225,000. That is more than twice the salary of Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL...
After further conversations in the coffee shop, Torres was finally persuaded by the diplomat to tell her story to U.S. embassy officials. She was then flown to Washington for protection and lodged with an official of the AFL-CIO, under whose auspices Hammer and Pearlman had been working on land reform when they were murdered. The labor organization has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to their killers. While in Washington, Torres passed a polygraph test and convinced U.S. officials that she was a truthful witness...
...spread open. A copy of TV Guide was near the bed. Also in the room was a newspaper clipping about the President's schedule, which disclosed that Reagan would leave the White House at 1:45 p.m. to address a session of the AFL-ClO's building and construction trades department at the Washington Hilton. The President had lunch at the White House in the family quarters. He ate an avocado and chicken salad, sliced red beets and an apple tart. Then he worked on his Hilton speech and stretched out for a brief rest...
...startling videotape since the film recording the assassination of President John F. Kennedy '40 in 1963. Hinckley fired six shots at Reagan from a small crowd of reporters and onlookers at 2:25 p.m. on Monday, as the smiling president emerged from the Hilton after addressing a group of AFL-CIO leaders...
...still too disorganized to have an impact on Congress. Yet resistance is developing. Last week Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy conducted a "policy forum," at which he assailed Reagan's plans as a "program of unfair sacrifice and unequal benefit based on an untested and uncertain economic theory." AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, with almost dreary predictability, attacked the Reagan budget as "the most costly roll of the dice ever proposed for this nation." United Auto Workers President Donald Fraser termed it "bad economic policy and worse social policy...