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...idea behind the agreement came from Victor Gotbaum, 53, chairman of the union negotiators and local chief of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest of the city unions (110,000 members). The complexities of the compromise were characteristic of Gotbaum, who knows not only the familiar cries of public rhetoric but also the intricacies of private bargaining. Born in Brooklyn, where his father ran a printing plant, he holds a master's degree in international labor relations from Columbia University and has worked for the Government teaching collective bargaining procedures to union leaders...
...show in Helsinki was the signing of a 35-state declaration, negotiated over the past two years, that formalized the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe. In perhaps the most dramatic moment, the 35 delegations arrived at the conference in handsome Finlandia House almost simultaneously Wednesday morning to begin the largest meeting of national leaders ever held in Europe. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt bounded from his seat and pumped the hand of Leonid Brezhnev; moments later he greeted a buoyant President Gerald Ford in the same way. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing...
...part might well lead to countercoup or renewed civil war. Foreign diplomats in Nigeria also fear that Mohammed's Moslem background might lead to a less moderate policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. Under Gowon's leadership, Nigeria, an OPEC member and in recent months the largest exporter of crude oil to the U.S., did not participate in the Arab boycott against Israel's allies after the 1973 Middle East...
...achieved all goals possible," he said yesterday, citing as examples of the program's success an increase in the amount of funds allotted to women's crew, the team's two-year undefeated record, and its three-year winning streak at the Eastern Sprints at Middlefield Conn., the largest college regatta...
...ranging from modeling agencies and limousine services to bar trinkets, for which it is only now beginning to develop a coherent marketing strategy. Recognizing that the operation must be trimmed down and reorganized, Hefner has now called in Victor Lownes, 47, a longtime crony and PEI's second largest stockholder. Officially, Lownes is director of Playboy Leisure Activities, a new division that includes the hotels and clubs, where losses have been glaring; unofficially, he is Hefner...