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...real target of Sadat's sweeping clampdown is the Islamic fundamentalists, who object to his eagerness to bring Western business into the country and to his dealings with the Israelis. Among the Muslims seized were Omar Telmissani, 75, head of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and Dr. Hilmy Gazzar, leader of militant student groups, along with 28 of his lieutenants. Later, an additional 54 Islamic activists were arrested in Alexandria...
...wonder. Reagan was addressing almost 3,000 delegates to the Chicago convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners-and union officials currently rank not far behind black and feminist leaders in expressing dismay over the Administration's course. "He has cut out every social program we have fought for over the last 40 years," exclaimed Roy Klein, a convention delegate from South Bend, Ind. Boston Delegate Andrew Sarno added: "I don't think he should have been allowed to come here...
...officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters turning Government informers and supplying tips against their enemies in the union? The Nixon White House calling off Government investigations that threatened to incriminate the President's supporters in the nation's largest union? Such Watergate-era allegations began to surface as long ago as 1975, but they attracted little attention, partly because they came initially from an informer of dubious credibility...
...wasted a historic opportunity" to root out corruption and mismanagement, said the subcommittee's 190-page report, released last week. The object of those disparaging words is a fiveyear, $5 million investigation by the Labor Department of an enormous pension fund controlled by officials of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters-a union whose ties to organized crime have inspired a number of federal probes over the years and whose power, and powerful friends, have usually helped protect...
...future doesn't seem to scare them. Scouting is partly to credit: it makes life a shared adventure. "You feel you're not alone when you are a Scout," says Mike Byrnshire, 15, of Vinita, Okla. "You've got friends everywhere. It's a brotherhood...