Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rough and sturdy hands of the 165,000 United Mine Workers. In scores of begrimed towns throughout Appalachia, in settings as varied as Utah, Missouri and Pennsylvania, they marched to their union headquarters to cast their ballots-or, in some instances, angrily shred and burn their copies of the pact. And though the final results would not be in until this week, from the very first tallies the tide ran heavily against acceptance of the contract...
...U.M.W. leadership spent $40,000 to whip up support for ratification of the second pact. Country Singer Johnny Paycheck, a favorite of the miners, was recruited to support the settlement in one-minute radio spots. Instead of belting out his top song, Take This Job and Shove It, he pushed the new contract by singing a few bars of Spread the Good News Around. Miller traveled through Appalachia, appealing to the locals and making a pitch on television. District presidents chorused their own praise of the pact over nine TV and 50 radio stations in all the regions where U.M.W...
...rank and file, however, remained skeptical. They assembled at their locals to hear the pact explained and to ask questions. Each miner was handed a copy of the contract in a 36-page booklet. No literary scholar is better at reading between the lines than a miner, who treats a contract as reverently as the Bible and even takes it underground in case there is a grievance. The more the miners read, the angrier many of them became...
...insisted a U.S. arms-control expert last week as the Carter Administration stepped up its efforts to soften opposition in Congress to a new SALT treaty. The old pact expired in October, but the U.S. and Soviet Union have agreed to continue abiding by it while negotiators in Geneva bargain on a SALT II treaty...
...international agreement that would stabilize sugar prices through voluntary limits on exports to the U.S. by foreign producers, chiefly the Philippines and the Dominican Republic. But the Senators, reflecting the anger with the President felt by Congressmen from farm states, are in no mood to support the pact until the Administration establishes a policy ensuring that U.S. sugar producers will not be hurt by foreign competition...