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...Congress, Nixon suffered his worst defeat since the rejection of two of his Supreme Court nominees. The Congress overrode his veto and placed new limits on his war powers (see story page 30). Top officials of the AFL-CIO launched a campaign to get the union's 13.5 million members to demand the President's "immediate impeachment." The union's convention had called upon Nixon to resign, but since he apparently will not, the AFL-CIO statement said, there are 19 reasons why he should be impeached. Among them: "He has consistently lied to the American people;" "He has violated...
George L. Wessel, an enrolled Republican who heads the AFL-CIO Council in Buffalo, feels that Nixon is "such an egoist that he's liable to burst and push the red button, and then we'd be at war." Despite the efforts of the Republican Party to dissociate itself from Watergate, it appears to have been badly hurt. G.O.P. fortunes seem dim in New Jersey, where voters are selecting a new Governor, and party coffers are empty. "I think the vote is going to be so low that it will be a repudiation of everybody," says a G.O.P...
Pittsburgh boosted its record to 7-1 and widened its lead to 2 1/2 games in the AFL Central Division...
...papers tomorrow because it's going to be bad. This whole week is going to be bad, and I don't want you to worry about it. I know what I'm doing and I'm doing the right thing.' " She simply laughs off AFL-CIO President George Meany's charge that the President is suffering "dangerous emotional instability." Says she: "It's so absurd...
...diverse group of active AFL-CIO members, retired garment workers, socialists and students chanted "Viva la huelga!" and sang "Solidarity Forever" as they distributed boycott information to throngs of weekend shoppers who gathered on Tremont, Washington and Winter...