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...that have rarely seen unions before. In one pitched battle last March, 100 registered nurses--some of them grandmothers who never expected to find themselves on picket lines--won a 16% wage increase over 1 3/4 years after a six-month strike against the Catholic-run Mercy Hospital in Port Jervis, New York. Undaunted by the hiring of replacement workers, the nurses, who were members of the National Health and Human Service Employee union, picketed in weather that sometimes sank to -29 degrees C. "I would like to think our strike was a step forward for the labor movement," says...
...before Wojcik departs for some foreign port of call, he will stay in Cambridge to allow his example to lead the men's soccer and lacrosse teams...
...PREDICTIONS WERE STARK AND frightening. Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide foresaw serious consequences if the radical priest, ousted in a September 1991 coup d'etat, ever returned to power: rivers of blood would flow through the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and dozens of the regime's opponents would perish in barbarous "necklaces" of burning tires. The poverty-stricken nation would become a Marxist enclave and an enemy of the U.S. So how to explain that a year after Aristide and the country's first democratically elected government were returned to power...
Certainly the tiny nation of 7 million has rebounded from the dark age of the Cedras dictatorship, when the economy lay in ruins, a brutal militia known as the attaches spread terror, and no one dared leave home after dark. Today the avenues of Port-au-Prince and other cities are teeming with life and commerce at all hours. The press is free, political parties are vigorous, and human-rights abuses are at a historic...
...have roads and proper water and sewerage systems. The U.S. will be committing genocide if it reduces funding. It makes me sick to think that members of our government are responsible for these spending cuts. It is a wonder they are able to sleep at night. ALISON ROOT Port Washington, New York...