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...deputy in attendance was the Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, the notorious "hanging judge" who has ordered more than a hundred people executed. He, like most of the senior mullahs, supported the deal. Cursing the organizers of the boycott as "truant kids," he pounded his fists so hard on his desk that his turban fell off The session was then adjourned until Sunday. Said Khalkhali: "This Majlis is incapable of solving the hostage problem. The Imam [Khomeini] should solve it himself...
...minutes earlier had assured the ASIA delegates that political terrorism in his troubled country was "a nightmare that we hope is past and gone." A terrorist group calling itself the April 6 Liberation Movement, after a massive 1978 anti-Marcos demonstration in Manila, had warned the travel agents to boycott the convention. Even though terrorists had set off some 20 bombs since August, killing one person and injuring scores, American embassy officials in Manila and the FBI assured ASTA that the chances of an incident were small. To make them even smaller, Marcos had assigned 3,000 security personnel...
...dues, better grievance procedures and arbitration of disputes. While the union may extend the contract to other Stevens plants where it wins elections or is declared bargaining agent by court order, it agreed not to recruit on company property for 18 months. The union also ended its four-year boycott of Stevens products and its campaign of corporate harassment of the company...
When the union's boycott of the company proved ineffective-Stevens last year earned a record $47.7 million on revenues of $1.8 billion-the A.C.T.W.U. also launched a corporate harassment campaign that turned out to be very potent. Devised by Raymond Rogers, 36, a former VISTA worker, the strategy aimed at isolating Stevens from the business community. Rogers scored his first coup in 1978; that was when the Manufacturers Hanover bank dropped two of its directors who were also Stevens directors, following a threat by many unions to withdraw more than $1 billion in pension and other funds they...
Waiting anxiously in the wings is the radical left's idol, Tony Benn, 55, who will probably boycott the parliamentary balloting for the party leadership on the ground that it is less democratic than the proposed new electoral college. Cynics offer another reason: Benn would make a poor showing because even leftist colleagues are cool to him. If the electoral college is dominated by the far left and chooses Benn, Labor M.P.s would almost certainly move to elect their own leader. This dual system works well in West Germany. But in the acrimonious precincts of the British Labor Party...