Word: labor
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Clark Mollenhoff has not had to wait. He used to be the toughest-some would say most demonic-reporter in Washington. Mollenhoff helped unearth the scandals involving Jimmy Hoffa, Bobby Baker and many lesser operators. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his "persistent inquiry into labor racketeering." Now Mollenhoff is a White House deputy counsel charged with digging out Government malfeasance and corruption from the inside. He has scoured the record of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., and has flatly rejected as character assassination the conflict of interest charges Democrats have leveled against the Supreme Court nominee...
...Israel, voters choose parties rather than individual candidates for the 120 seats in the Knesset, or Parliament. The seats are then apportioned among the 16 contending parties according to percentages of the total vote. The results were about what had been expected. Prime Minister Golda Meir's Labor Party collected the largest number of seats. With a slow count still incomplete at week's end, the projection was 56 or possibly 57 seats. With five votes from two Arab parties aligned with Labor, she will have a majority of one or two-just below the three-vote margin...
...center Gahal Party, which called for annexation of the Arab territories captured in the 1967 war, gained at least one seat and is expected to emerge with 25 or 26 in all. "We won't budge an inch," Gahal Leader Menahem Begin told crowds. Mrs. Meir and other Labor leaders were more vague about the occupied lands, promising simply "no withdrawal without peace...
...ruling Liberal coalition was expected to have little difficulty protecting its majority of 38 in the 125-seat Parliament. Last week, with the final votes still being counted, it was apparent that the Liberals held power-but only just. In the closest tally in years, the opposition Labor Party seemed likely to trim Prime Minister John Gorton's comfortable margin to at best a half-dozen seats...
...contrast to Gorton's unquestioning support for American policy in Viet Nam, the Laborites made it clear that they would pull all 8,000 Aussie troops out of Viet Nam by June-and out of Southeast Asia reasonably soon. Labor Leader Gough Whitlam, 53, laid out a program of social reforms, including a free health scheme and free university education at a cost of $15.6 million a year, and an emergency school grant of $112 million to cover immediate needs. His emphasis on domestic issues, which normally take second place in Australian elections to foreign affairs, appealed...