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...evident in class as well as culture. In the '60s hard hats were all too often on the sidelines taunting "unpatriotic" protesters. This spring many of the demonstrators wore union insignia. The staunchly conservative AFL-CIO hierarchy urged its members to boycott the rally, but five of the six largest unions in the federation endorsed the protest, and union members were heavily represented. Some observers estimated that as many as a third of the marchers were union members...
...would become Canada's largest corporate takeover, and it is already a political football. When the House of Commons returns to work this week from Easter recess, lawmakers may take up the proposed $3.9 billion buyout of Dome Petroleum by the Canadian arm of Chicago-based Amoco, fifth largest U.S. oil company. Dome's board, faced with $4.9 billion in debt, last week accepted the offer. But Toronto-based TransCanada PipeLines, which underbid Amoco by $600 million, vows to keep up the fight...
...majority were allowed to vote, according to a poll by Johannesburg's largest black newspaper, the Sowetan, the winner by a substantial margin would be Nelson Mandela, an imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) whose wife Winnie has become an international symbol of protest. Barred from the ballot, the blacks turned to another kind of action last week in one of the worst outbursts of violence since a state of emergency was declared last June...
...largest asbestos removal project currently underway is a $300,000 job on the 10th floor of William James Hall. Preliminary work has started for the job, which will begin in June, officials said...
...what heart could carry a burden in the fantasy world of flowers, floats, and happy faces that teemed among the happy throng at Red Square--billed as "The Largest Paved Enclosure East of the Balkans"? As troop carriers and missile launchers gaily paraded by, clowns threw buckets of confetti at the crowd, and Misha the bear stooped to say hello to youngsters. "I am Misha, the friendly symbol of the Soviet peoples," the bear would announce in Russian. "I welcome all strangers in peace. But if you come with aggressive intentions your blood will water the land of Mother Russia...