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...commission for a program that the Great Communicator has been unable to sell to a skeptical Congress and nation. The commission, composed of Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, displayed enough independence to avoid any imputation that it had acted as a rubber stamp. The Democrats, led by AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, successfully insisted on some language that troubled both Reagan and Kissinger. Yet in the main they assented to proposals that one State Department official accurately described as "by and large, an endorsement of what Administration policy...
...termination of the activities of the so-called death squads, as well as vigorous action against those guilty of crimes and the prosecution to the extent possible of past offenders." This wording was primarily the work of Kirkland, who has been incensed by the unpunished murder of two AFL-CIO representatives in El Salvador in 1981, and it pointed to a very real dilemma...
...depended on El Salvador as a front line against Cuban-and Nicaraguan-inspired subversion in the region. But the commission members flatly condemned the country's abysmal human rights record (see box). In a tense confrontation with right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland angrily questioned D'Aubuisson's charges that Samuel Maldonado, leader of the 100,000-strong Salvadoran Communal Union, a peasant organization that has close ties to U.S. labor groups, had collaborated with leftist guerrillas...
...Neill dismissed the merits of the immigration bill with a simple political question: "Is there any real constituency for it?" There were enough supporters of the bill, including such diverse leaders as the president of the AFL-CIO and the chairman of Exxon, to win Senate passage twice, the last time by the overwhelming vote of 76 to 18. Ironically, a recent poll shows that even Hispanics favor tighter immigration laws, contrary to the position of their leaders. But support of organized business and labor for the bill has been lukewarm at best. The opposition of various special interests...
...seminar's guest speakers. The list includes Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.), the Presidential candidate whose espousal of industrial policy made the concept a political force: Democratic elder statesman John Kenneth Galbraith (scheduled for later this year), and officials of the United Auto Workers and the AFL-CIO...