Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reagan recalls with pride his years as a labor-union president. As a result of that experience, he has taken a strong pro-labor position on right-to-work laws. Even so, present-day labor leaders, who cannot believe that he stands as a liberal, have been almost unanimously hostile to his candidacy...
...table food, offer 33% of the state's jobs, represent 70% of the state's cash transactions. Yet, he remarks, "Farmers are being forced to conduct a social-welfare experiment for the Federal Government." The hottest issue among California farmers is the U.S. Labor Department's cancellation of a longtime arrangement whereby Mexican braceros entered the country without visas to pick crops. When they did not appear last year, California farmers were badly hurt by the scarcity of labor. The Governor, Reagan charges, "didn't even use his prestige to appeal to the Federal Government...
...Democratic nomination, and is sure to siphon off votes that would otherwise have gone to O'Connor. To compound O'Connor's woes, Rockefeller's progressive record, notably an increase in the state minimum wage to $1.50, has cost the Democrats some of their customary labor support. The 250,000-member Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York has endorsed Rocky. The state A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council, which usually bestows an automatic blessing on the Democratic candidate, last week voted to remain neutral in the gubernatorial race...
...Africa's staunchest advo cates of racial harmony. Eighteen years ago in London, Seretse cast away his paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. The marriage embarrassed both Seretse's despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, and the Labor government of Clement Attlee, which hustled Seretse into an exile that lasted eight years...
Shots at the Shutters. News of the attempted conquest electrified all Argentina. The nation's Peronist labor unions called for all-out mobilization to conquer the Malvinas. A gang of toughs invaded the British consulate at Rosario and burned a portrait of Queen Victoria. In Buenos Aires, eight shots were fired at the shuttered windows of the British embassy, where Prince Philip had just arrived for a three-week goodwill visit. To calm the uproar, President Juan Carlos Ongania issued an announcement declaring that while the islands were the rightful property of Argentina, the government would stand...