Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the contentious questions dividing U.S. policymakers is how best to stop El Salvador's escuadrones de la muerte-death squads. The victims are supposedly "subversives," but they include union leaders, liberal professors and centrist politicians. Bush was in El Salvador for just seven hours, but his warnings about...
Most of the snooping challenged by the suit was the work of the 62-member public disorder intelligence division (PDID). Police claim that the PDID helped break up dangerous groups and led to the arrest of a potential presidential assassin during a visit by Jimmy Carter in 1979. Insists Police...
Workers haven't taken this bad a beating since before 1935," says Lewie Anderson, director of the packing house division of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Anderson can see the damage among his own battered members. The average hourly wages for 110,000 workers have been...
Workers claim that the auto companies are getting tougher in other ways, too. Executives, they say, pit one plant against another, using interplant rivalries to spur production, a tactic called "whipsawing." Says Bob Breece, president of the U.A.W. local at Chevrolet's Flint, Mich., motor division plant: "They come...
Dropping the case was one of the last official acts of Baxter, 54, who resigned his post the next day to resume his teaching position at Stanford. During nearly three years as head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, Baxter had dropped the Government's 13-year...