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After further conversations in the coffee shop, Torres was finally persuaded by the diplomat to tell her story to U.S. embassy officials. She was then flown to Washington for protection and lodged with an official of the AFL-CIO, under whose auspices Hammer and Pearlman had been working on land reform when they were murdered. The labor organization has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to their killers. While in Washington, Torres passed a polygraph test and convinced U.S. officials that she was a truthful witness...
...videotape since the film recording the assassination of President John F. Kennedy '40 in 1963. Hinckley fired six shots at Reagan from a small crowd of reporters and onlookers at 2:25 p.m. on Monday, as the smiling president emerged from the Hilton after addressing a group of AFL-CIO leaders...
...still too disorganized to have an impact on Congress. Yet resistance is developing. Last week Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy conducted a "policy forum," at which he assailed Reagan's plans as a "program of unfair sacrifice and unequal benefit based on an untested and uncertain economic theory." AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, with almost dreary predictability, attacked the Reagan budget as "the most costly roll of the dice ever proposed for this nation." United Auto Workers President Donald Fraser termed it "bad economic policy and worse social policy...
Clifton C. Garvin, Jr., chairman of the Exxon Corporation, will chair the management portion of the group and Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, will head the labor segment...
Dunlop said he hopes that non-AFL-CIO labor leaders from either the Teamsters or Coal Workers unions will join the group, and that the membership is still not finalized