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...mobilization drive (estimated worth: $40 million) seems not to have sparked much soul searching among union leaders. They roundly reject the notion that labor forced an unelectable candidate on the Democratic Party or that they bear any responsibility for his defeat. If anything, they say, Mondale dug his own grave by not campaigning directly on labor issues. Many union officials maintain that the interest ignited by the early endorsement greatly strengthened their political apparatus. "The process produced its intended result," says AFL-CIO Spokesman Murray Seeger. "It's given us a kind of excitement, a kind of unity...
...land cheap ($100 an acre for cleared land, $75 for uncleared) but in so doing it changed their lives. By the time the road reached their area in 1967, Shorty Bradley had been dead a year and buried beside his private airfield. "We had a terrible time digging the grave because of the time of year," Marino recalls...
...cutting off the government's $6 million annual subsidies to a variety of maharajahs and princelings. When conservative opponents rallied around her chief rival, Deputy Prime Minister Morarji Desai, she dismissed him from her Cabinet. When the party chiefs, angered by her leftward turn, expelled her for "grave acts of undiscipline," she went to the Parliament and won a vote of confidence. When she called a surprise election in 1971, she triumphantly captured more than two-thirds of the seats. And when civil war broke out between the two regions of neighboring Pakistan, she sent in troops to help...
...bells tolled, Popieluszko's plain wooden coffin was carried into the churchyard and lowered into a brick-lined grave. Someone had removed the heart-shaped bouquet with the letter S (for Solidarity) set in white against a background of red carnations, which had adorned the casket. But after the funeral, thousands of Poles marched toward the city center carrying Solidarity banners. Riot police deployed along the way appeared to be under orders to keep their distance; there were no reports of violence to mar the day of mourning...
OSCAR WILDE'S MASTERPIECE "The Importance of Being Ernest" is as self-conscious a piece of fluff as ever there was. The play, indeed, is full of references to its own triviality. When one character advises another, "In matters of grave importance, style not sincerity is the vital thing," she could be talking about Wilde's own philosophy...