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...picture taken with striking members of the United Auto Workers at the Caterpillar plant. "It's not good business to replace workers," Clinton told them. "They have a right to strike, and they shouldn't lose their jobs doing it". . . On the Other Hand: Last month he praised rank-and-file U.A.W. workers at the General Motors plant in Arlington, Texas, for going "against the leadership of their own union" to accept flexible new work rules that persuaded GM to keep the factory open. Clinton implied it was the U.A.W. leadership's stubbornness in not changing work rules...
...existing prejudice -- that many people don't know if they can believe anything Clinton says. There'll be ads that say 'Clinton talks about a middle-class tax cut, but he's raised over 100 taxes in Arkansas' and 'He talks about improving education, but Arkansas' pupils rank near the bottom on test scores.' " According to Bond, we'll also see spots that "accentuate the stature gap," like, "In the next decade 10 Third World countries will have nuclear weapons. Who better can deal with a madman with nukes, George Bush or Bill Clinton?" "Foreign policy will be an issue...
Such reasoning is rank nonsense, and should be treated as such. Facts are facts, no matter who tells them to us. Right now, we don't know what the facts are, and have little reason to doubt or believe what CCH has charged about Gomes...
...took officer training and satisfied his thirst for adventure by joining the highly respected Special Boat Service commandos. After a decade of frontline service, he spent two years learning fluent Chinese and soaking up Chinese history -- prompting suspicions that he engaged in intelligence. In 1971 he resigned with the rank of captain, entered the foreign service and was posted to the British U.N. mission in Geneva...
...turned scab. The movie has much to say about the limits of hyped confrontation as a means of settling issues. But the true power of American Dream lies elsewhere. It derives from the access Kopple gained to the union's inner circles and the lives of its leaders, their rank-and-file followers and opponents. We watch horrified as these good people -- embracing passions they cannot control -- rush toward destruction, and are enthralled as this painstaking film achieves something like the stature of classic tragedy...