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...offer to buy Eastern. Borman was by then negotiating night and day with the airline's unions. He delivered an ultimatum: accept 20% wage cuts or the airline would either sell out or go under. The pilots agreed to Borman's terms, and the flight attendants tentatively accepted a pact, but the machinists' union balked. That led to a confrontation between Borman and Charles Bryan, a 30-year company veteran who has led the machinists since 1979 and been an Eastern board member since 1983. Known as Chairman Charlie because of his power in the company, Bryan declared that...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38 had argued yesterday that the leftist Nicaraguan government was becoming a "second Cuba on the American mainland [meaning] the Warsaw Pact will have effectively outflanked...
...White House, Old Glory had just 48 stars, and the Dodgers were still Brooklyn's beloved Bums when the international treaty outlawing genocide was first sent to the U.S. Senate for ratification in 1949. In the intervening years, every American President except Dwight D. Eisenhower has endorsed the pact, and 96 nations, including the Soviet Union, have confirmed it. Last week the Senate finally approved the treaty by a vote of 83 to 11. Said Majority Leader Robert Dole: "We have waited too long to delay further...
...accord, drafted with U.S. help following the Nazi Holocaust, makes the mass murder of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups an international crime. Over the years, U.S. opponents of the treaty, most of them Senate conservatives, have said they had no quarrel with its sentiments but argued that the pact would permit foreigners to meddle in American domestic affairs. Last May the Senate passed a resolution that allows the U.S. to exempt itself from World Court jurisdiction over treaty cases. That provided the cover Congress needed and finally cleared the way for the U.S. officially to endorse...
...Hearst has little to lose by shaking things up. San Francisco has never been blessed with a top-grade daily newspaper, nor is the marketplace really competitive. In a joint-operating pact, signed in 1965, to guarantee the survival of both papers, the Examiner agreed to switch to afternoon publication. Since then the two papers have shared printing and distribution costs. They also split revenues, thus ensuring that the Examiner will have a healthy bottom line despite running a poor second to the Chronicle...