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...public workers' union demanded a 9.5% wage increase while the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl argued that anything over 4.8%, or just enough to cover the inflation rate, would damage the economy. Last week the government was forced to offer 5.4%. The union leadership accepted, and chairwoman Monika Wulf-Mathies called it "a political victory." Minister of Special Tasks Rudolf Seiters, the government's chief negotiator, warned that the settlement would slow the country's economic growth. When federal, state and local costs were added up, he said, the government outlays would increase $10 billion this year. Rank-and-file...
...mock trial (they lost) and working in George McGovern's campaign in Texas (they lost again). After graduation they briefly went their separate ways -- he to Arkansas to teach and run for Congress, she to Cambridge, Mass., to begin work at the Children's Defense Fund (she is now chairwoman of its board) and then to Washington to work on the Nixon impeachment inquiry...
...that showed Clinton far ahead in the money race, further feeding the impression of a Clinton surge following his victory in the Dec. 15 Florida straw poll. Clinton has also encouraged hostile questions simply to strut his dexterity. At a November meeting of Democratic state leaders, the Washington state chairwoman, after speaking with a Clinton adviser, asked if the candidate was a neo-Republican. The unsurprised Clinton drew strong applause by evoking his grandfather's near religious devotion to Franklin Roosevelt...
...overpriced company stores. Since crops are seasonal, the field hands ran up large tabs, which were then deducted from their pay and resulted in a lifetime of indenture. Those who quit were ordered off the land. Virginia Sutton, 74, a graying yet dapper great-grandmother of 17 and co- chairwoman of the group, once labored in the sugarcane fields for 70 cents a day. "We used to work from can't to can't," she says, recalling the long days. "You go to work, it is so dark you can't see your hand, and when you finish, you still...
...organization came to Four Corners with years of rehab experience in other communities. Yet when its members arrived, the initial response of the local women was wariness. Says Mary Matthews, 55, Four Corners' other co- chairwoman: "At first, I didn't think it would work, but we then put our heads together and did it. Soon others heard about us and joined us. Now we don't want to quit. We want to finish...