Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been busy working in the union movement for several years, and am delighted to now be studying at Harvard as a student in the Harvard University Trade Union Program. Presently, I am a labor leader from Local 375 of the Civil Service Technical Guild in New York City where I represent the architects, engineers, landscape architects and other technical professionals in city government...
Rather than trying to prevent the sale and distribution of drugs by dealers, the four teams that operate today are saturating neighborhoods with undercover officers to make as many arrests as they can. The effort is directed at stopping the daily rhythm of the drug trade and killing as many local markets as possible...
While it is too early yet to tell the long range effects of these programs, it is an active response that recognizes the immense activity necessary to halt the street level trade, the life-force of the growing crack industry...
...their world crashing down was an out-of-control lust for the intense feelings of power and well- being that flow from a hit of crack. "Crack has taken away these women's pride," says Thomas. "By the time they find their way here, they'll beg, steal and trade their bodies to the dope man for more." The mothers uneasily deny that their babies were affected by crack, but Thomas says all the children have shown signs of their mothers' drug...
That resentment inevitably turned to anger, and last week Winnie Mandela was publicly read out of the antiapartheid movement. At a press conference in Johannesburg, the two largest black antigovernment organizations, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the banned United Democratic Front, charged that she had "violated the spirit and ethos of the democratic movement" and called on the black community to "distance" itself from her. Though less critical, the exiled leadership of the African National Congress (A.N.C.) in Lusaka said Mandela had made mistakes. Murphy Morobe, a U.D.F. spokesman, said the organizations were particularly outraged...