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...simultaneous impression of reluctance, on the part of many women, to be drawn even into the fringes of the movement. Some of this may be attributable to residual resentment of old rhetorical putdowns, and some of it may have to do with resistance to being commandeered as unenlisted poli tical foot soldiers or being spoken for by proxy. "A lot of the failures of the movement are built into the people who are speaking for women," says Novelist Anne Tyler. "Basically I agree with everything they say, but I find myself wanting to disagree be cause of the way they...
...lower court decision denying it tax exemptions. The Justice Department had argued against the university, but is now asking the court to drop the case be cause of Reagan's directive. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law also said it would contest the new tax poli cy in federal district court in Washington. That court issued a permanent injunction in 1971 forbidding tax benefits to discriminatory schools in Mississippi, and noted that the principle was meant to apply to other states as well...
Union President Robert Poli vowed that his union would appeal the decision to the federal courts. "We are still PATCO," he declared. "We are still proud." A federal court in Washington agreed to hear the case this week and has granted PATCO a temporary delay of the ruling. But some of Poll's members are pessimistic. Robert Westra, a former controller at Chicago's O'Hare Airport who is now trying to support himself as a carpenter, pronounced the decision "incredible." He saw only "a 5% hope" that he will be able to return to work. That...
...Poli was also criticized by other unionists for failing to try to explain the issues to members of Congress and for even refusing the offer of a public relations firm to help him get his union's story across to the public. Said one labor insider about Poli: "He may be a good traffic controller, but he is over his head as an administrator and political strategist." A former PATCO official said acidly of Poli: "He's taking his members on a trip to Jonestown with a few gallons of Kool...
Despite a genuine spirit of camaraderie, the picket lines were not without expressions of fear and even some criticism of Poli's strategy. At New Jersey's huge Newark Airport, a controller with eight years experience said sadly, "I never thought it would come to this. I thought Reagan was bluffing." Poli, he said, should have taken the court injunctions banning the strike as a reason to surrender with honor. "He could have said that he didn't want to give the Federal Government an excuse to bust the union and that he was ordering us back under protest...