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...also urged that the U.S., which pays 25% of UNESCO's budget ($303 million this year), withdraw from the body if the declaration is adopted. In a letter to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, New York's Senator Daniel Moynihan last month called on the U.S. to "thunder our contempt for this contemptible document." In Paris, the 38-member U.S. delegation has been lobbying quietly to water down the declaration. But the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times last week editorialized against compromise. Demanded the Times: "What on earth have Pravda and the New York Times to bargain...
...Time's contempt for part-time farmers exemplifies its disdain for small, independent endeavors. In European countries, where part-timers make-up as much as 55 per cent of the farm population, the creative combination of working on the land and in small rural communities has enabled many people to maintain a cherished way of life...
...withdraw wage concessions. And the union fell into line. Powers also repeatedly accused the union's chief shop steward of "bad faith negotiating" because he revealed his dissatisfaction with the contract. Relations between the two deteriorated so severely during the negotiations that Powers barely troubled to hide his contempt. In the aftermath of the heated contract debate, kitchen workers remain quietly frustrated. So did the printing workers after they reluctantly accepted their contract last spring, and B&G workers say the abortive strike still rankles...
...yourself and your conscience to, know whether you have withheld something from the trial court and the jury which would have been of aid in the search for truth." Then, because the trial was over except for the jury's verdict, Trautwein released Farber from jail and suspended the contempt penalties against him and the Times...
...case is not entirely closed. Jascalevich still faces malpractice charges before the New Jersey board of medical examiners, which could bar him from practicing medicine. Farber and the Times, which has paid $285,000 in fines and $700,000 in legal costs, are appealing the contempt citations to the U.S. Supreme Court. Its decision could draw more clearly the line between a defendant's right to a fair trial and the First Amendment's protection of the press...