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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tuesday morning, July 10, economic, labor and business leaders: Robert Abboud, board chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago; Douglas Fraser, president of the United Auto Workers; John Kenneth Galbraith, author and economics professor emeritus at Harvard; Lyle Gramley, member of the Council of Economic Advisers; John Gutfreund, head of Salomon Brothers; Paul Hall, president of the seafarers union; Walter Heller, economics professor at the University of Minnesota and member of the TIME Board of Economists; Jesse Hill, Atlanta businessman; Reginald Jones, board chairman of the General Electric Co.; Lawrence Klein, economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania; Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Camp David Guest List | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

From Camp David, President Carter flashed a quick message via satellite to Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Said the President: "I was concerned to learn that fragments of Skylab may have landed in Australia." Carter instructed the Department of State to offer assistance. None, however, was needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Skylab's Spectacular Death | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Early this week United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser leads a phalanx of union representatives into the orange-carpeted fifth-floor conference room at General Motors headquarters in Detroit to open triennial contract negotiations with the Big Three automakers. The outcome of the most important labor negotiation of the year will significantly affect inflation and wage rates in other industries. Much will depend on Fraser, who is making his debut as chief negotiator for the 1.5-million-member union that he has headed since 1977. TIME Detroit Correspondent Michael Moritz analyzes the man whom the auto chiefs will confront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fraser Goes into High Gear | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...smoky Woodbridge Tavern listens to a woman with fierce ginger hair punching out tunes on a ravaged piano. Over the chatter, the president of the third largest union in the U.S. clutches a microphone and, in a gravelly voice, leads the house in a rendering of Solidarity Forever. Douglas Fraser has been singing this union anthem for almost half a century now, his own career paralleling the rise of the U.A.W. He is the last of a generation of labor leaders bred in the rich liberal traditions of American trade unionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fraser Goes into High Gear | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

With considerable supporting evidence, the pro-lifers claim they made the difference last year in defeating pro-choice Democratic Senators Dick Clark of Iowa and Thomas Mclntyre of New Hampshire, as well as Democratic Senatorial Candidate Donald Fraser of Minnesota. This spring the pro-lifers helped defeat pro-choice candidates for vacant congressional seats in California and Iowa. Well aware of the publicity value of beating a big name, the movement's members are gunning in 1980 for, among others, Republican Congressman John Anderson of Illinois and Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fanatical Abortion Fight | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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