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...instance, a Peoria, Illinois, man was suspended from his job at Caterpillar Inc. for wearing a T shirt bearing the words DEFENDING THE AMERICAN DREAM, which happens to have been one of the slogans of the United Auto Workers in their 17-month strike against Caterpillar. Since the strike ended in early December, the firm has forbidden incendiary slogans like "Families in Solidarity" and suspended dozens of union employees for infractions as tiny as failing to shake a foreman's hand with sufficient alacrity. A 52-year-old worker who failed to peel union stickers off his toolbox fast enough...
...pool of their own blood is not to be excused. Your articles were great, but they failed to convey the worry we older soldiers have for the well-being of our younger soldier brothers and sisters. Congress and the President: Don't waste their young lives! GARY J. VACHON Peoria, Illinois...
GALAPAGOS: A GLIMPSE INTO OUR PLANet's future and another lost opportunity. PETER J. COURI JR. Peoria, Illinois...
Even if Republicans win the floor vote in Congress, Democrats will try to make them pay at the polls later by telling voters that the G.O.P. plan went too far. For Representative Ray LaHood of Illinois, a Republican freshman, the question is literally whether it will play in Peoria. Television spots blasting his party's proposals are already running in his district. Calls to his office have been divided, he says, between people who are mad at the ads and people who are mad at the Republicans. "There is an understanding that we are going to do something with Medicare...
...drag that plays in Peoria, pays at the box office and preys on filmgoers everywhere...