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Years of internal feuding by the insurgents who took over the union in 1972 have reduced the U.M.W.'s top leadership to a fractious clique of backbiting squabblers. President Arnold Miller, 54, re-elected by a minority of the members last spring (TIME, June 27), has remained mired in struggles with erstwhile supporters who say that he has not shown effective leadership. Meanwhile, wildcat strikes by U.M.W. locals have mushroomed out of control. As a result, the U.M.W., now negotiating in Washington with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association for a new three-year contract, finds itself unable...
Whatever the outcome in October, Carew's quest for the elusive .400 is a welcome and joyous event for baseball, helping to turn the sport away from its fractious present and back to its roots. After a generation of musical franchises, a decade of labor unrest in the locker room, a time of free agents and frostbitten World Series in mid-October, baseball sorely needs to get down to basics. Carew is the right man at the right time, a modern version of Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler pushing the ball past grasping...
...fourth Prime Minister of India, he promised to restore civil liberties, adhere to the principles of local development idealized by Mahatma Gandhi and maintain a scrupulously nonaligned foreign policy. A lifelong politician in the Gandhian mold, Desai is as eccentric as he is ascetic, and he leads a fractious coalition party that could fall apart under the slightest stress Nonetheless, whatever troubles ahead for India, his party's startling tory was a momentous event for democracy everywhere in the world...
...said Robert Strauss shortly after he was chosen to be Democratic national chairman four years ago. He seemed to be taking on an impossible task. The fractured and fractious party had just gone down to a disastrous defeat with Candidate George McGovern, who carried only one state (Massachusetts) and the District of Columbia. Through a combination of shrewd politicking and good-humored bullying-"He is the only person I know who can call you a son of a bitch and leave you laughing!" says an admirer-Strauss succeeded brilliantly in reconciling the party's warring wings into a reasonably...
Less than a month after it ousted the fractious democratic government of Prime Minister Seni Pramoj, the Thai military's 24-man National Administrative Reform Council (NARC) formally turned over the reins of authority to a civilian Cabinet. In ceremonies presided over by King Bhumipol Adulyadej, NARC'S nominal chief, Admiral Sangad Chaloryu, even bade an official farewell to the nation as a new civilian Prime Minister, Tanin Kraivixien, 49, was sworn in. A former justice of the Thai Supreme Court, Tanin announced that Thailand would be "guided" by stages back to full democracy. "From...