Word: union
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate "who can win in the South and in the North, on the farms and in the cities, with the whites and with the black Americans, with the old and the young." He talked tough about the Soviets. Approval of SALT, he declared, would "guarantee to the Soviet Union the margin for error that used to be ours." He said the nation must have a President who will "face up to the realities of a Soviet foreign policy that probes every weakness and fills every vacuum...
...made recently by scientists in the U.S.S.R. to their own government. Last week Soviet energy specialists disclosed that eventually all of the U.S.S.R.'s oil-fueled plants, which generate about 30% of the country's electricity, will be replaced with nukes or coal-fired plants. The Soviet Union now has about 25 nuclear plants, second only to the U.S., which has 72. By 1981 the Soviets expect to have eight additional large ones in operation...
David Rosen, an attorney for the union, said last week it had sent a letter to the dean of Harvard College requesting a boycott of Cotrell and Leonard, the Albany, N.Y., cap and gown manufacturer. But neither Dean Fox nor other officials said they had received such a letter...
Rosen said yesterday the union has also mailed the letter to the Harvard Coop, which acts as Cotrell and Leonard's agent in supplying Harvard students with the regalia...
...union and Cotrell and Leonard are entangled in a four-month labor dispute. The union has charged the company with unfair labor practices and called two strikes, one of which is still in progress; the company denies the union's charges and says both the strike and the complaints are the work of only a small group of employees. The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled a hearing on the case for next February...