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Last week TIME published an open letter from former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger challenging Michael Dukakis' "views" and "instincts" on national security. Schlesinger accused Dukakis of snubbing military installations in Massachusetts, opposing most new weapons systems, having a questionable commitment to nuclear deterrence, alarming U.S. allies with his calls for enhancing NATO's ability to "fight and win" a conventional war, and underestimating the cost of a conventional buildup. Another former Defense Secretary, Harold Brown, who has consulted with the Dukakis campaign, responds...
...union argues in the letter, however, that it was engaged in legitimate get-out-the-vote efforts and says that the list-keeping charge is the primary question to be resolved at the hearing. The union letter maintains that on election day it only polled workers--away from the voting places--with previously expressed union sympathies and were a standard part of union elections...
...letter, signed by HUCTW organizers Kris Rondeau and Marie Manna, argues that the union and the University should agree together to have the validity of the election decided in-house, instead of waiting for a decision on the case from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB...
...union letter, which is the latest in an ongoing paper war between the administration and HUCTW, provides the first public discussion of how the union plans to defend itself against University charges that it violated election day guidelines...
Because of the probable delay in deciding whether HUCTW's election victory will stand, the letter says Harvard should agree to move from an external to an internal solution. "We have a proposal that would bring the question of this election back down to earth, saving wasted months and thousands of dollars, as well as allowing employees to be more closely involved in the process," the letter reads...