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...recognition of the virtual unanimity of anti-apartheid forces on this issue, many prominent American organizations have endorsed corporate withdrawal. They include the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Congressional Black Caucus, the AFL-CIO Executive Council, the New York Times, and the National Council of Churches...
Carter's inflation fighters did score early success in persuading unions to restrain wage demands, but last week the AFL-CIO announced plans to challenge the program in court. The federation argues that the National Labor Relations Act requires employers to bargain "in good faith" with unions, and claims that doing so is impossible if companies know they can lose federal contracts by agreeing to excessive wage increases...
...Fourth National Bank, boasts that he has hired two senior officers away from Houston banks. Iowa-born Richard Upton, who runs the hyperactive Chamber of Commerce, points to Metropolitan Life, NCR and many other big companies that have opened branches in the area. Tom Pierce, Wichita's AFL-CIO chief, notes that despite its right-to-work law, Kansas' average hourly wage is fairly high ($6.11). Says Pierce: "If workers come here and stay for two or three months, you would have a tough time getting them to move...
There is no person in Washington who understands completely the meaning of $531.6 billion. The arguments last week about Jimmy Carter's national budget were surrealistic political rituals designed more for personal identity by the combatants than real evaluation of where we are headed. The AFL-CIO's George Meany stormed that the whole budget was an attack on "average Americans." Former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Wilbur Cohen called the small adjustments in Social Security "tragic, unsound." And by the end of the week, Congress's Black Caucus had declared the budget "immoral." Each critic seemed...
...Present Danger, a blue-ribbon nonprofit think tank that was formed two years ago. Though it has only four full-time employees, its clout lies in the respect enjoyed by its 162 members, such as former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland. Its principal SALT spokesman, Paul Nitze, Deputy Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson and a SALT negotiator under Nixon, has an intimidating expertise on defense matters, and has been stumping the country expressing his reservations about SALT II. A cool, persuasive debater, he argues that...