Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Walsh, attorney for Harlow Properties and several other major Cambridge landlords, said last week that the Harlow family has sent letters to all of its tenants urging them to vote for anti-rent control candidates David Sullivan, a CC '77 council candidate, says the feelings of Harlow's tenants are such that this letter would only encourage them further to vote for pro-rent control candidates...
Carol Evans, running as a member of the Socialist Workers Party, has all the right qualifications that a left-wing candidate should have: She was up to her neck in the anti-war movement; she was a founding coordinator of the Committee to Defend Abortion Rights, which supported Kenneth Edelin; she has long been involved in the struggle to desegregate Boston schools...
Chirac has carried on with his aggressive anti-left crusade, charging that the Communists and Socialists were indistinguishable "collectivists." For the moment, he seems to be the big loser in the leftist split. Concedes one of his deputies: "We've been brandishing the Socialist-Communist specter. Now that's not credible any more. We're revising our strategy." Chirac is also seeking to change his image as a hard-lining right-winger. He is barnstorming around France three days a week until the elections, trying to convince voters that he really favors progressive economic and social change...
...I.L.O., pressured by its anti-Israel bloc, granted the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status at I.L.O. meetings. That prompted then-U.S. Labor Secretary John Dunlop to boycott one I.L.O. meeting. Later, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger voiced concern over the "increasing politicization" of the I.L.O. One example: hasty condemnation of Israel for supposedly mistreating Arab workers in occupied territory. Such lack of due process, said Kissinger, is "in utter disregard of the established procedures and machinery, and is gravely damaging the I.L.O. and its capacity to pursue its objectives in the human-rights field...
...reform, the only measure that will goad the organization into getting off its political soapbox. There is a dispute only about when to act. Officials at the State Department and National Security Council want to continue the threat for another year; the Labor Department wants to pull out now. Anti-U.S. rhetoric at I.L.O. annual meetings does not, in the view of even its harshest critics, undo what the I.L.O. has accomplished over the years. But it does divert and distract the organization from its basic business of helping the world's workers...