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Lane Kirkland, 58, AFL-CIO president, on the plethora of Democratic presidential hopefuls: "I can count about twelve people who are showing signs of delusions of adequacy...
...Hammer and Mark David Pearlman. Hammer, 42, an agrarian expert who had arrived in the capital the day he was killed, and Pearlman, 26, a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, were both employees of the American Institute for Free Labor Development, an international arm of the AFL-CIO. The organization has been under contract to El Salvador to provide technical assistance for the country's major land-reform effort...
George Meany, 85, gruff, cigar-puffing chieftain of U.S. labor who rose from Bronx plumber to president of the AFL-CIO from its birth, in 1955, to 1979. Whether battling for fuller union lunch pails, assailing Communism, or dismissing critics who accused him of being too conservative, Meany lectured Presidents and public alike with equal bluntness...
...says. "I came to Los Angeles principally because that was the place where things were going to happen." He specialized in handling labor matters for corporate clients. Though a forceful negotiator, he won the respect of his adversaries. Says William Robertson, executive secretary of the Los Angeles County AFL-CIO: "He is really an objective and brilliant attorney. And, unlike a lot of labor lawyers, he is not a union buster." Smith met Reagan in 1963 and became a kitchen cabinet adviser when his friend was elected Governor of California...
Addressing a state AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles, Carter put the matter bluntly: The coming election, he said, "will determine whether we have peace or war." In a local television interview the next morning, Carter got down to specifics: "To call for the use of military forces in a very dangerous situation has been a repeated habit of [Reagan's] as a Governor and as a candidate for President. What he would do in the Oval Office I hope will never be observed...