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...DIED. SALVADOR LAUREL, 75, former Philippine Vice President who helped topple Ferdinand Marcos by deciding not to run for the presidency in 1986, which would have split the opposition challenge to the strongman; in San Francisco. Instead, Laurel, who came from a prominent political clan, became Corazon Aquino's running mate. After Marcos tried to rig the elections and was forced into exile, Laurel served as Aquino's Vice President from...
...back against a wall; the president must return to the U.N. and make a more authentic appeal for assistance—allowing for the possibility of relinquishing power to an international body. The U.N. has a strong track record of maintaining order in such diverse places as Namibia, El Salvador, Cambodia, eastern Slavonia, Mozambique and Cyprus. An institution Bush once wrote off as “irrelevant” may soon become his—and Iraq’s—only hope...
...ongoing dispute at the Primo S.A. de C.V. factory in the San Bartolo free trade zone in El Salvador, where Lands’ End produces clothing for schools including Harvard, the same story is playing out again. Last spring, the WRC heard complaints of anti-union blacklisting, health and safety violations and other problems that violate its code of conduct; the WRC did a full investigation and publicized their findings. The FLA started an investigation only after the WRC went in, and never publicized what they found. And now, the WRC is leading the effort toward resolution...
...despite its “reform” efforts, the FLA still lags in doing its job of responding to corporate violations of workers’ rights. From the New Era cap factory in Buffalo, N.Y., to Land’s End’s Primo factory in El Salvador, the WRC investigated charges of union-busting and discrimination and WRC-affiliated universities threatened to suspend their licenses if companies failed to comply with codes of conduct—and the companies ended up complying. The FLA, when it took a public stance, did so only after...
Kornbluh said it is now possible to read transcripts of cabinet meetings “where regime change was plotted” during the Chilean crisis that show the U.S. was aiming to remove democratically-elected president Salvador Allende Gossens. At the time, the U.S. actively denied any involvement in Pinochet’s rise to power...