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Grey Area. The reason for the widening schism between the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. is as old as the picket line: jurisdictional disputes. Faced with a decline in membership (from 15 million in 1958 to about 12½ million now), the increasing threat of automation, and long-term unemployment in organized industries, A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions have come to ignore their no-raiding pledges, compete bitterly with one another for membership. A major new "grey area" of conflict: factory maintenance. Although building tradesmen have always held a monopoly on industrial construction, C.I.O.-formed unions have traditionally carried out essential maintenance. Recently...
...which the West was forced into alliance with one monster (the Soviets) to beat another (fascism). As history, the Spanish War is barely a generation old; as an exemplary conflict, it is as contemporary as yesterday's Korea or today's Laos or the schism of the two Germanys...
...schism had been long in the making. For years, Nasser had been jailing home-grown Communists-even while toasting Soviet dignitaries and signing new trade pacts with the Communist bloc. He has effectively purged them from the government, the press, the schools. Khrushchev's flirtation with Arab nationalism seemed to have come to nothing but a costly flop, and he was under pressure from the Red Chinese, who condemned aid to Nasser as an "opportunistic error...
...graduate magna cum laude of a ranking Jesuit institution, Fordham, I observe that the fatal intellectual schism that rends Catholic colleges has seldom been more openly revealed than in your story on Notre Dame's Father Hesburgh...
Five weeks ago Nikita Khrushchev convened in Moscow an ecumenical council of the Communist hierarchs of 81 nations to deal with the threat of schism raised by efforts of the brash Peking Communist school to put itself forward as the true exemplar of Communist faith and practice. Last week the resulting creed finally was published in Moscow and in Communist papers around the world...