Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where his friend Iacocca is concerned, former United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser is no longer surprised by such heretical outbursts of labor affection for management. "I get asked by people all the time to have Lee autograph copies of his book," says Fraser, whom Iacocca put on Chrysler's board five years ago. "Even at Solidarity House." Solidarity House is U.A.W. headquarters...
...arrested officer, Commander Gabriel Gonzalez Gonzalez, died in police custody. Mexican authorities, insisting that Gonzalez died of natural causes, described him as a cocaine addict and an "intimate friend" of alleged Drug Kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero. But U.S. officials considered Gonzalez trustworthy: as Jalisco's top homicide detective for Guadalajara, Gonzalez had been investigating the Camarena kidnaping and the disappearance of six other Americans in recent months...
...miserable mother. She had borne an illegitimate son in Paris and then, under parental pressure, abandoned him to the care of relatives back home in Philadelphia. This unhappy child had grown into a drunk and failure who died at age 28. His widow became the artist's closest friend and companion; she survives as the head priestess of Caroline's cult. Jane Watson ultimately confesses to Anne that she married the son "I didn't love so I could have his mother for my mother." She adds: "Between the two of us we crushed that poor boy into the ground...
...strengths of his own that make him attractive to many labor leaders. Unpretentious and relaxed, he is a political operator who exudes reasonableness even when dealing with opponents. Said one AFL-CIO official: "We disagree with Brock, but Brock listens." Said Brock of Kirkland: "He's an old friend, a man I have a great respect for, and a man I think I can work comfortably with." Nor has Brock's record as Trade Representative been completely inimical to labor. While he argued strongly for free trade, Brock nevertheless negotiated voluntary import restrictions with foreign auto and steel producers. Nevada...
Only a few months ago, a Nicaraguan friend, an exSandinista who still speaks their language, said in near despair that the struggle of democrats around the world was doomed by the absence in the West of what he called "democratic militance." The Reagan Doctrine represents a first step toward its restoration...