Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wily AFL-CIO president, Lane Kirkland, sat down with Political Columists Jules Witcover and Jack Germond in March 1982 and floated a whooper. He felt the AFL-CIO should endorse a candidate in 1983, long before the primaries and the conventions, something the federation had never done. Kirkland, its turns out, had been brooding about the idea since 1968 and had had it on the tip of this tongue the day after Ronald Reagan was elected...
There is no way that we could stand by and see that sea-lane denied to shipping." So said President Reagan last week, referring to growing concern that fighting between Iran and Iraq could close the 40-to 60-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf shipping lane through which 20% of the West's crude oil travels. That threat grew more worrisome as Iran launched yet another offensive, its biggest since July 1982, against Iraq. By week's end Iranian forces had occupied 37 Iraqi border villages, and were engaged in fierce hand-to-hand battles...
Some Pentagon officials feel the threat to the strait has been exaggerated. The waterway is no longer as crucial a sea-lane as it was in the 1970s when up to 60% of the world's oil supplies moved through its waters. Today that figure is considerably smaller. Indeed, Iran would have the most to lose if shipping were interrupted: it currently exports 2.6 million bbl. per day through the Strait of Hormuz. That crude is expected to bring Iran more than $24 billion this year, half of which would go to finance Iran's war with Iraq...
...Freshman Lane Evans of Illinois faces Kenneth G. McMillan, a hardline conservative who won the 1982 GOP primary over then Rep. Tom Railsback, largely because Railsback was implicated in the Paula Parkinson sex scandal. in Illinois, along with Texas, the Democrats expect to make their biggest House gains, and Evans' district, which is fairly representative of Illinois outside of Chicago, is a watermark for Democratic chances...
...sponsored by the Des Moines Register, so pointedly raised the question of how beholden Mondale is to organized labor, whose support could be worth as much as $20 million. At a press conference in Atlanta last week, John Glenn followed with a harsh rhetorical question for AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland. Asked Glenn: "What does Kirkland think he's buying with his $20 million? A President who will never disagree with the AFL-CIO? If the Democratic nomination can be bought for $20 million in the spring, it isn't going to be worth a plugged nickel...