Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Okin, the author of "Women and Western Political Thought," said that she favors "a system of family where either men and women agree to share work and responsibilities equally, or to a division of labor where partners are equally compensated for work outside and inside the home...
...including most anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, refused to participate in the Indaba, just as it refused to participate in elections for the triracial parliament. So did the Azanian People's Organization (APACO), a smaller anti-apartheid group, and the Congressof South African Trad Unions (COSATU), the largestnonracial labor federation. Undoubtedly, theirresponse was colored by dislike for Buthelezi,whose strong-armed followers are notorious forbrutal attacks on Black opponents. (13) The ANC,being illegal under the current regime, was notinvited, but it is as vehemently opposed to theprocess as the UDF, COSATU or AZAPO. The mainparticipants in these 'negotiations...
...First talk, and then fight." When the talks failed last February, she said, "it was time to fight, and it is still fighting time. Am I also expected to take up an M-16 and do it myself?" To respond to criticism that she was soft on the militant labor movement that had shut down numerous factories, she issued orders for the police to take down illegal strike barricades immediately. She castigated the military mutineers who sparked the current crisis with their nearly successful August uprising. "They fought me, I fought back. Surrender would have been neater...
Some Manila newspapers that had been foretelling doom since the August rebellion had a change of heart. "This could be the turning point of the Aquino presidency," wrote the Manila Chronicle. Other papers rushed to publish Aquino's full text. Despite her rightward swing against labor and the Communists, even some of the President's supporters in the moderate left applauded the speech's implications. Indeed, many had felt that her aura of saintliness had got in the way of her politics for too long...
...famous plane flew home to Hamburg last week, but its famous pilot was not at the controls. Mathias Rust, 19, the West German amateur pilot who landed the rented Cessna just outside Moscow's Red Square last May, stayed behind in Lefortovo Prison awaiting assignment to a Soviet labor camp to serve his four- year sentence. The plane was flown to West Germany and transferred to its new owner, Munich Businessman Wolfgang Rudy Neumann, 51, who bought the craft from a Hamburg aviation club...