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...supporters realized that with a mere 29 percent of the American people's backing, they need every bit of moral cover they can find. Their solution was to name the bill the Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act, and have Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.,) proclaim that the bill was "a statement...about our fundamental values in this country...
This bill claims to ensure "workplace fairness" and bolster fundamental values, and it is named after a famous social activist, so it must be great for the country, right? Wrong! Despite the name, the Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act is still a terrible piece of legislation which could have disastrous repurcussions on the economy...
Proponents of the Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act claim that employers provoke strikers so they can replace them with cheaper workers. Representative William L. Clay, D-Mo., the original sponsor of this legislation, claims that "employers provoke strikes to exploit the weakness in the law." He goes on to say that "intentional promotion of labor disputes by employers in order to bust unions undermines labor-management relations, the basic rights of workers, and the stability of our communities...
...documentary, The RFK Tapes, which contends that the case against Sirhan is, or ought to be, far from closed. Producer-narrator William Klaber proposes that Sirhan was a brainwashed setup for the real killer. (One oft-cited suspect, who denies involvement: a part-time security guard named Thane Eugene Cesar.) And who had programmed Sirhan? In the tapes' most notable contribution to shadow history, Klaber points to Dr. William Bryan Jr., a California sex therapist (now dead) who had purportedly conducted hypnosis experiments for -- yes, you guessed...
WHAT HE WANTS, APPARENTLY, IS RESPECT. IN HIDing since last July when he escaped from his comfy cell in a prison at Envigado, Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar has been trying to negotiate a conditional surrender. Colombian President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo has said no, choosing instead, with the U.S., to place more than $3 million in bounties on Escobar's head and stepping up police pressure. Last week Escobar fired back, announcing that he would set up a private army, the Antioquia Rebel Movement, to counter the "barbaric methods" of special antinarcotics police forces. The government dismissed the threat...