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Word: einar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previous two -in the so-called Cod War, a 17-year-old dispute with London over the valuable fishing rights in the chilling Arctic waters off the Icelandic coast. At a hastily arranged meeting in "neutral" Oslo, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland and Icelandic Foreign Minister Einar Agústsson signed a six-month agreement that could end what had become an increasingly acrimonious disagreement between the two NATO allies (they broke off diplomatic relations last February) and was even threatening to impair the alliance itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HIGH SEAS: Now, the Cod Peace | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

Iceland feels that there is little room for negotiation. "The natural resources at stake here do not mean anything to the British economy as a whole," said Icelandic Foreign Minister Einar Agustsson. "But they are Iceland's only natural resources and therefore not only important but a matter of life and death for us Icelanders. Without fish we haven't even a chance of survival." Tiny Iceland, moreover, believes that it has one potent weapon in its not-so-funny war with London. If Britain refuses to give in, it may well close NATO'S surveillance station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HIGH SEAS: The War for Cod | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...part in police work"-but his hunches tend to be inspired. These two are supported by a sturdy cast: Fredrik Melander, who has a prodigious memory and spends much of his day in the bathroom; Gunvald Larsson, an impetuous dropout from what he calls "upper-class riffraff;" Einar Rönn, who writes execrable official reports; Per Mänsonn, who is chief in Malmö, where trouble often occurs (and where the Wahlöös lived). Finally, there are the Keystone Klutzes, Kvant and Kristiansson-patrolmen stuck with each other because neither can get along with anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Martin Beck Passes | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...control the Teamsters follow blatantly racist policies. Einar Mohn, president of the Western Conference of Teamsters in 1973, said. "It will be a couple of years before they can start having membership meetings, before we can use the farm workers' ideas in the union...I'm not sure how effective a union can be when it is composed of Mexican-Americans...as jobs become more attractive to whites, then we can build a union that can have a structure and that can negotiate with strength and have membership participation" (Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1973). Recently, the Teamsters shifted...

Author: By Carol Radway and Christopher Tilly, S | Title: Gallo Boycott: | 2/11/1975 | See Source »

...provisions (which are repeatedly violated under Teamsters contracts, a fact which has led to a number of recent wildcat strikes by workers covered by the Teamsters); the labor contractor system (which the UFW contract abolishes); and, above all, union democracy. The Teamsters' attitude towards democracy was best expressed by Einar Mohn, President of the West Coast Conference of Teamsters, who told the LA Times (4/28/73), "It will be a couple of years before they can start having membership meetings...I'm not sure how effective a union can be when it is composed of Mexican-Americans...As jobs become more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FARMWORKERS' PLIGHT | 12/4/1974 | See Source »

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