Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Laborers for the Hormel meatpacking corporation have been striking for more than a year now and are still being ignored by their union. Even though this lock out, a culmination of Reagan's union-busting philosophy, is slowly being forgotten, the strike may bring new life to the labor movement by encouraging the development of grass roots labor organizations...
...week to release the last installment of $100 million in aid that was granted to the contras last year. To win release of the final $40 million, the Administration must assure lawmakers that the current rebel leadership is representative of Nicaragua's democratic opposition, even as two of the movement's three directors are threatening to resign. "As things stand now, we can't certify that the leadership is what it should be," says an Administration official. "It's a very, very serious problem...
...Cruz and Alfonso Robelo, have threatened to quit the U.S.-sponsored United Nicaraguan Opposition because of their differences with Adolfo Calero, head of the largest and best-armed contra organization, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force. Cruz and Robelo say Calero has ignored them and undercut their attempts to democratize the movement. Cruz recently told TIME that the UNO chiefs were not "spokesmen for the people" but rather a "cluster of bickering leaders." In Costa Rica, Robelo reportedly told U.S. officials that he would resign unless Calero and his cronies were ousted...
...Ambassador to Washington, remains essential to making the contras palatable. Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, the Administration's chief architect of Central American policy, said of Cruz, "Nobody is irreplaceable. But he comes as close as you can get." Last week the State Department tried to salvage the movement by working to expand the UNO coalition and subsequently reduce Calero's dominance...
...year-old mother of two, was dying of lung cancer. Her last request to Carnes was to "try to make people aware of the dangers of smoking." Carnes helped persuade the commercial air carriers to begin segregating smokers in the early '70s. In 1973 she spearheaded a movement that prodded the Arizona legislature to pass the first state law limiting smoking in public places. "The time was right," she says now. "People were becoming health conscious. Only thing was, the majority of the nonsmokers were afraid to speak . out; they thought they were in the minority...