Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bobby himself notes with wry pride: "I am the only candidate opposed by both big business and big labor." Many foreign diplomats, especially Asians, fear that he might lead the U.S. back to isolationism. Orthodox politicians often cannot forgive his hauteur, and recoil at what seems to be his rule-or-ruin approach. He is unpredictable, uncontrollable. Would he attack agricultural subsidies? Farm groups wonder. How far beyond Medicare would he go in expanding Government medical services? Organized medicine worries. He speaks for tax reform and attacks the oil-depletion allowance, as others have for years, but Bobby might just...
...state conventions and caucuses in Maryland, Delaware, Arizona, Wyoming, Nevada, Hawaii, Alaska and Maine. Humphrey has also been doing well against Kennedy in public-opinion polls, outdistancing him by nine points in the Gallup sampling of Democrats reported last week. In April, Kennedy led by four. Humphrey has labor backing and strong support from businessmen, who by and large still distrust Bobby. He has even been gaining among younger voters?ostensibly Kennedy's strongest bloc. The May survey, however, was taken before Indiana and Nebraska: these and future primaries could affect the polls in Kennedy's favor...
Forty Abreast. The country's major labor unions opened the week with an illegal but half-successful one-day general strike. More than half a million Frenchmen-led by student militants who were joined by workers, teachers and opposition politicians-staged one of the largest protest marches in Paris history. Forty abreast, they paraded for five hours through midcity, singing the Communist Internationale and chanting such slogans as "De Gaulle resign" and "De Gaulle to the museum." No violence marred that procession; police stayed carefully away. But in provincial cities, cops and students fought battles with tear...
Unlike their counterparts in France, who boast a staunch ally in labor, West German students must usually go it alone in their stormy protests. But they keep at it just the same, and last week was no exception. At Frankfurt University, 200 members of the Socialist German Students' League barricaded university entrances, surrounded buildings with a tough, red-helmeted picket line and battled anyone who tried to enter classrooms. At Bonn University, 1,000 students boycotted lectures. At more than a dozen other West German universities and colleges, thousands more staged teach-ins and protest marches...
...demonstrations lost some of their steam. The third and final reading, at which time the bill would become law, is scheduled for next week, and passage seems almost certain. On the same day, however, the Socialist German Students' League has called for a general strike, hoping that labor will-at last-come around to its side...