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...export his own authoritarian Marxist-style unionism to all of Africa. But everywhere Nkrumah turns, he finds the same stubborn opponent, the West's International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which has won affiliates in 22 African nations with the argument that the worker fares best under demo cratic unionism in a free society. Last week the two systems clashed head-on at a 38-nation conference in Casablanca to launch the All-African Trade Union Federation, pet project of Nkrumah and such pals as Guinea's Sekou Toure...
Problems of the political future were still very much on Ike's mind when he landed in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There his host was conservative Demo cratic Senator Harry Byrd, who has stubbornly refused to endorse his party's ticket, and all but urged his supporters to vote for Nixon and Lodge. With Byrd by his side, the President looked in on the drab little home at Mount Sidney where his mother was born, attended the annual luncheon of the Woodrow Wilson Birth place Foundation in nearby Staunton. (Notably absent was President Wilson's widow...
...signed on the dotted line as president of the National Association of Broadcasters was Florida's genial Demo cratic Governor LeRoy Collins whose $22,500-a-year term expires in January. After his effective chairing of the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles earlier this year, Collins hinted that he was open for an ambassadorial or Cabinet post if the Democrats win. Best guess as to why Collins would choose October's birdinhand instead of waiting for the iffy outcome of November's election: $100,000 a year...
Well satisfied with his face lifting of New Haven, Conn. (pop. 149,000), fourth-term Mayor Richard C. Lee, energetic slum clearer and chairman of the Demo cratic Advisory Council's subcommittee on urban problems, is eager to advise the nation's metropolises on their slum problems. Speaking to a predominantly Negro Sunday school group, Dick Lee, 44, last week suggested a strategic variation on Southern lunch-counter sit-ins that sent official eyebrows soaring in police headquarters across the land...
Scheduling fast action on minimum programs, scaled down drastically from bold forecasts at the beginning of the 86th Congress, the leaders decided to call it -quits, adjourn this week if possible. Muttered one thoughtful Demo cratic Senator: "We've been gutted, absolutely gutted...