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Someone once noted that watching members??of Congress question Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was a little like watching the clubbing of a baby seal. On Tuesday, however, it was worse than that: the nation's top law-enforcement official handed out baseball bats before taking the inevitable punishments...
...workers rushed to join up at hastily improvised union locals across the country, Walesa and the other ex-strike leaders quickly found themselves at the head of a labor federation that soon grew to 10 million members???fully a quarter of the Polish population. Organizing and controlling the loosely knit federation, which was divided into 38 semiautonomous regional chapters, soon became a major challenge for Walesa and the national commission that he headed in Gdansk. The job was complicated by an almost insatiable drive for democracy among a rank and file that had no experience with the democratic process. Most...
...traffic continued to grow, so did the controllers' concerns about stress and safety, and so did PATCO. By the mid'70s, the union had nearly 15,000 members???all but 2,000 of the entire staff of qualified FAA controllers. The union grew increasingly militant as rank-and-file members felt that each new contract failed to meet their same old demands for more reliable equipment, less grueling shift schedules and more...
...traditions and rituals of opening day have not changed much in 189 years, but in far more substantive ways this is a vastly different Congress from those of the past. More than half of its members???61 Senators and 231 Representatives?were first elected within the past nine years; more than one-third of them have been in office for three years or less. Young, well-educated and aggressively independent?of both their own leaders and the White House?they are continuing the congressional revolution that started as a reaction to the tragic mistakes of Viet Nam and Richard Nixon...
...Westminster model. Instead, each racial group in the country except blacks?whites, coloreds and Asians?would have a separate communal "parliament." These bodies would in turn nominate representatives to a Council of Cabinets, which would choose an all-powerful President (presumably Vorster). The council would have eleven members???six whites, three coloreds and two Asians...