Word: representated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secret Ballot. Under a new California law, farm workers at long last are getting a chance to decide by secret ballot which union should represent them. By week's end the U.F.W. had won 24 elections, the Teamsters 14. Which union would win the most remained in doubt-the...
The most symbolically important contest had yet to be decided. Chavez and his supporters have been boycotting the wines of the E. & J. Gallo Winery -California's largest producer-since 1973, when Gallo officials declined to renew their contract with the U.F.W. and instead signed with the Teamsters. At...
Meanwhile the civil war in Angola continued without respite last week. The death toll is estimated at more than 4,000. For the moment, at least, the Marxist, Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) seems to have the upper hand. It has tightened its control over...
With Gonçalves out of the way, Premier-designate Admiral José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo−a leftist who seems acceptable to the military's moderate and radical factions−may now be able to assemble his Cabinet. He had been stalled because the Socialists and Popular...
Boycotts and Shouts. The denouement came late Friday, when Costa Gomes convened the M.F.A.'s General Assembly at Tancos, hoping to gain its backing for the appointment of Gonçalves as chief of the general staff. But the meeting was boycotted by delegates from both the army and...