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There are signs, though, that change is under way. While his predecessors kept union negotiations at arm's length, union leaders say, Walsh's direct involvement helped speed up a resolution. With Walsh and his union counterpart sequestered in a London hotel, says Brendan Gold, T&G's national secretary for civil air transport, "serious negotiations were done." Ahead of BA's move next year into the new $8.5 billion Heathrow Terminal 5, the airline persuaded thousands of ground staff to agree to change their practices. So, while an aircraft tug driver used to leave work before...
...government led by the Civic Platform is unlikely to be the tonic that the Kaczynskis' critics expect. Founded in 2001 by ex-Solidarity trade-union dissidents and academics, the party's leaders may be more sophisticated than their Law and Justice rivals, but their basic principles are similar. (The Kaczynskis were also Solidarity members.) The Law and Justice Party, for example, has been criticized for its vigorous pursuit of the policy of "lustration," which requires officials and professionals who had dealings with the former communist secret police to confess their collaboration or lose their jobs. But the Civic Platform...
...Cabinet - may not be repeated. And some moderation in the tone of Poland's public diplomacy can also be expected: it is unlikely that the Civic Platform would repeat the less-than-convincing argument, made by Jaroslaw this summer, that Poland should get more votes in European Union councils because of Polish population losses at Nazi hands during World War II. It's also doubtful that an official will propose investigating the sexuality of Tinky Winky, a character in the children's TV show Teletubbies, as one government appointee did earlier this year...
...former Prime Minister who first reached out to the U.S. with a power-sharing proposal. She visited New York City in mid-August, meeting with Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., and talking up a possible team. The task of calibrating U.S. policy on the potential union--to satisfy diverse interests in the Administration and avoid getting crosswise with Musharraf--has fallen to Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia. Administration officials say the office of Vice President Dick Cheney favors a deal...
Even in a country with a history of fierce political rivals coming together for their own survival, the idea of a union between Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto seems preposterous. After all, they hate each other with an undisguised passion. She has a phobia about military dictators--her politician father was executed by one--and has described General Musharraf as an incompetent ruler who indulges in "puerile brinkmanship." In his view, she and Nawaz Sharif, another former Prime Minister, epitomize the weak, deeply corrupt democracy he overthrew in a bloodless 1999 coup. Just...