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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...August, Sun Harvest, Inc., the nation's largest lettuce producer, and several smaller Salinas vegetable firms reached agreement with the UFW on new contracts featuring a $5 hourly wage. These settlements, Chavez says, "make a lie of industry claims growers cannot afford workers' economic proposals." The other lettuce growers, however, vowed to continue the fight...
Last Thursday, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller announced the Carter Administration's plan for salvaging Chrysler, the nation's third largest auto-maker, with a whopping $1.5 billion federally guaranteed loan. The Carter proposal, however, fails to insure that Chrysler will not once again choose the road to ruin...
...Massachusetts, which a 1976 government study indicates is one of the 12 largest state producers of waste, the legislature is considering a bill to regulate hazardous waste disposal. But the legislature's session ended just this week--and it never brought up the problem. "Every state has dragged its heels and neglected its responsibilities," says one Harvard safety official. And the feds are trying to dump the problem on the states. Says Goetz Oertal, the DOE's director of waste products, "It's a choice each state is going to have to make...
...then you say: "The U.S. controls Guantanamo Bay ... under a perpetual lease negotiated with the Republic of Cuba in 1903." No one, most Americans will agree, "negotiates" perpetual leases allowing foreign military bases on lome territory. Cubans were robbed of their revolution and denied self-determination, sadly, by the largest "democracy" at the time...
Exxon set off the latest oil brouhaha with a bland eight-page report on its business from July through September. This showed that the world's second largest firm (after General Motors) had more than doubled its profits to a walloping $1.1 billion-its first billion-dollar quarter in history. Soon after, other U.S. energy corporations reported spectacular quarterly earnings. Among the majors, Texaco walked away with the dubious first prize of a 211% increase, while Standard Oil of Ohio was second at 191% and Conoco third...