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Asked about the report, Meese replied that any meetings with labor leaders were "not designed or intended to interfere with the proper investigation of organized crime," although the Administration's intent was not the issue. Meese might also have replied that such improprieties have not been confined to the Reagan Administration. The commission pointed out that some New York officials had been character witnesses for Anthony Scotto, a vice president of the Longshoremen's Union, before he was convicted in 1979 of racketeering. The commission's counsel noted that Jimmy Carter had even campaigned with Scotto...
...force the ouster of Trade and Industry Minister Leon Brittan. In the House of Commons last week, amid charges of high-level deceit and manipulation, Thatcher's critics turned the debate into a full-scale assault on her whole style of governing. Neil Kinnock, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, demanded an investigation...
...with Egypt. But they retained Taba, and in fact built a resort hotel on it. Peres has been ready to agree to an Egyptian demand for international arbitration as a means of warming up the "cold peace" with Cairo. He has been held back by the Likud bloc, his Labor Party's right-wing partners in the ruling coalition...
...eventually cools down, the gap can easily be filled at home by rising consumer demand and increased industrial investments. Even the painful level of unemployment will probably decline slightly in the year ahead, partly as a result of an increase in small, new businesses. Nonetheless, some 10.5% of the labor force remains jobless, and this continues to be Western Europe's major economic and political problem...
...workers and the unskilled; between regions that are prospering, mainly those located around the Alps, and regions whose resource-based industries are in rapid decline. Export industries have been doing well, Giersch noted, while others, like housing, have suffered. What Europe still lacks, according to Giersch, is a flexible labor force that would be willing in some cases to accept lower pay and move more easily to new jobs. Without that, he said, it will be difficult to achieve more than 3.5% growth per year. Guide Carli, former governor of the Bank of Italy, noted that companies were increasing productivity...