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...withheld all the wages of their crews for an entire year, a hardball move if ever there was one. Not surprisingly, the fishermen went on strike. Since then there have been tens of thousands of strikes that have helped shape labor law and define the compact between worker and boss. Many strikes have been bitter. Some have been brutal: 18 steelworkers were killed during a 3 1/2-month strike...
...then recovery arrived, and Wilson, a onetime Nixon advance man, staged a comeback his old boss would have admired. Freed of his fiscal straitjacket, he joyfully pressed the new hot buttons: crime and illegal immigration. His ads trumpeted his leadership of last year's triumphant three-strikes-and- you're-out movement and his enthusiasm for the death penalty. He signed on to Proposition 187, the tremendously popular, probably unconstitutional, California ballot issue that would deny the state's 1.6 million illegal aliens any health care, welfare grants or even public education...
...catch them. Now those fighting the jihad can attack and then go back to their homes." Arafat's administration has been reluctant to confront the militants because these groups enjoy widespread approval among Palestinians for their anti-Israel exploits. One of Arafat's Cabinet members confides that his boss "has avoided the real job of cleaning up the extremists in Gaza...
...party when he had to be carted home. Even when sober, he had incompetence written all over him. A pre-employment psychological assessment found him lacking the people skills essential for spy work. Yet the CIA, desperate for warm bodies during the Vietnam War, hired him anyway. His first boss, the station chief in Ankara, Turkey, warned that the new agent was so inept at recruiting agents that he should never be sent to the field again...
...That agent, Milton Bearden, who has retired as chief of the CIA station in Bonn, is widely respected for his work in helping Muslim rebels drive Soviet troops out of Afghanistan. But Bearden has also been reprimanded for his inattention to Ames' activities when he was the spy's boss in 1989. Woolsey had ordered that none of those reprimanded in the Ames case be given promotions, raises or commendations. Last week he demoted the officers who violated that order; both men then retired rather than accept a lower rank...