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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that closes the book brings this out even more than the stories of the two rank'n'filer Teamsters. Gibbons was a socialist St. Louis Teamster leader, who pioneered in providing his members with a food co-op, his retirees with low-cost subsidized housing, St. Louis with mass transit, and who even supported busing to help eliminate segregated schools before the 1954 Supreme Court decision. And Gibbons supported McGovern in 1972 against the Teamster tide for Nixon. But he backed down when it came to challenging Hoffa or Fitzsimmons for union leadership--he was co-opted by the good...
...mayors, Governors and black leaders, for well-publicized talks at the White House. He expressed sympathy for their problems but made it clear that he faced a cash crunch. Then, tentative budget figures were leaked that suggested severe cutbacks in such fields as education, health, urban renewal, housing, mass transit and jobs for the hard-core unemployed. As expected, the drastic slashes set off cries of alarm...
...cited in Washington these days as "exactly the sort of thing the U.S. should not do in the Middle East today." In the 1950s a ranking U.S. ambassador in the Middle East, Raymond Hare, summed up the U.S.'s minimum interests in the region as "right of transit, access to petroleum, and absence of Soviet military bases." That probably remains the bottom line today. Toward that end, the U.S. may have to step up technical, economic and (very selectively) military aid. Already the U.S. has a potential "archipelago of allies" that aid each other in opposing Moscow-supported internal...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) will provide funds for the analysis of artifacts recovered last August from excavations in Harvard Yard by staff members from the Peabody Museum's Institute of Conservation Archaeology (ICA), Charles Steward, Environmental Coordinator of the MBTA Red Line extension project said yesterday...
RECENTLY, the Cambridge City Council voted to join a citizen group's suit demanding an injunction against extension of the Red Line through Harvard Square by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA). The council's vote, indicative of the growing sense of frustration felt by some Cambridge leaders, residents and businessmen, appears to be a well-directed step to ensure that citizens' views are not diregarded in the extension process...