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...that two of those Navy F-14s had shot down two Soviet-made Libyan Su-22s over the Mediterranean off Libya's coastline (see WORLD). That had been a two-fisted, straight-shooting display of military decisiveness much in keeping with Reagan's desire to project American clout overseas...
...steel mills in 1952. Richard Nixon in 1970 sent military troops into post offices where federal employees had illegally left their jobs. Still, taking on the controllers was not quite as difficult as facing down coal, steel, railroad and postal workers?who have far more members and political clout than doesPATCO...
Leaders of the P.L.O. felt that they had gained some invaluable diplomatic clout from the negotiations for the ceasefire by dealing, however indirectly, with both the U.S. and Israel. Neither country has recognized the P.L.O. as officially representing the Palestinians. The P.L.O. was also confident that the Israelis had suffered a serious propaganda defeat as a result of their bombing raid on Beirut, in which some 300 Lebanese and Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed and another 800 wounded...
...overshadowing--these trends is a simple truth: Big time capitalists and conservative ideologues are succeeding in their attempt to paint labor unions as greedy, unecessary, corrupt and bad for the economy. There are the glossy ads of the National Right to Work committee, which is gaining dangerous political clout, especially in the anti-union South. There was the next-to-needless baseball strike, with the slightly revolting sight of vastly overpaid and underworked players demanding more. And now there is the most popular president in recent memory taking to nationwide t.v. to infer that striking air traffic controllers are greedy...
...would try to high-hat anyone." A friend recalls an example. When O'Connor was president of Heard Indian Museum, which holds an annual and overcrowded handcraft sale, her son Scott wanted one item badly but had broken his leg in a skiing accident. Instead of using her clout to bypass a long line of buyers, his mother spent several hours sitting on a camp stool to await her turn...