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...other side was Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, a rising figure in the National Religious Party, which is a major partner in Begin's four-party Likud coalition. Supporting the teachers, Hammer insisted that the government had already agreed to abide by the recommendations of a blue-ribbon committee that had taken up the teachers' demands after a strike two years ago. Besides improved fringe benefits, the committee had endorsed pay increases that ranged from 30% to 60%. The teachers presently earn an average of $200 a month. The panel recommended that their pay be upgraded to the level...
Both Hurvitz and Hammer said they would resign if the other triumphed in their Cabinet battle. Either way, it would signify almost certain doom for the Begin government. If Hurvitz walked out, two other members of his tiny Rafi Party and two or three other political allies would be expected to follow and thus reduce Begin's majority of 63 Knesset members to fewer than 60, not enough to survive a no-confidence motion. A Hammer walkout would be even more devastating, since he would be expected to take with him most or all of the twelve-member delegation...
Police would not confirm whether Sutcliffe confessed to any of the deaths. Reports circulated that they had found incriminating evidence after his arrest: a hammer and knife, similar to the Ripper's grisly tools, lying where Sutcliffe's car had been parked. At a press conference, West Yorkshire Chief Constable Ronald Gregory gave every indication that the Ripper and Sutcliffe were...
Once again the gruesome internecine warfare that claimed 10,000 deaths last year had taken a toll in American lives. Killed in the massacre were José Rodolfo Viera, president of El Salvador's Institute for Agrarian Transformation, and two U.S. labor lawyers, Michael P. Hammer and Mark David Pearlman. Hammer, 42, an agrarian expert who had arrived in the capital the day he was killed, and Pearlman, 26, a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, were both employees of the American Institute for Free Labor Development, an international arm of the AFL-CIO. The organization has been...
...salvage. "I feel that what people call by the word scavenger is really a resurrection," she remarked years later. "When you do things this way, you're really bringing them to life. You know that you nursed them and you enhance them, you tap them and you hammer them, and you know you have given them an ultimate life, a spiritual life that surpasses the life they were created...