Word: unionistic
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...vote tally was in, local Teamster Chief Barry Feinstein was at Koch's private headquarters to pay his respects. "I anticipate a very tough year," said the man whose followers snarled the city in 1971 by locking drawbridges in open positions. "But I'm a pragmatic trade unionist and I will bargain." Another caller come to toast the victor was Albert Shanker, head of the muscular teachers' union and a man who had opposed Koch during the election. The powerbrokers were already getting their lines out to the mayor...
...militant Protestant followers of the Rev. Ian R.K. Paisley, the working-class rabble-rouser who is as contemptuous of what he calls the "bluestocking brigade" (the middle-class Protestant Establishment) as he is of "old red socks" (the Pope). Last week Paisley and his "loyalists" in the United Unionist Action Council called a general strike, Northern Ireland's first in three years, to force the British to renew tough search-and-destroy operations against the terrorists in the Catholic districts and reinstate the majority-rule (meaning Protestant-dominated) provincial Parliament in Belfast. The earlier strike...
...British government was convinced that Paisley and his paramilitary supporters were setting out to make a Rhodesia-style unilateral declaration of independence. Although Paisley and his allies denied that their goal was an independent Ulster, the strike was as much a threat to moderate Unionist leadership in the province as to Westminster. One former British Cabinet Minister who knows the province well said last week, "Paisley has always, in the back of his mind, thought of himself as the first president of a working-class Ulster Republic...
...Thatcher from coming to power. Help may also come from Liberal Leader Steel. Ultimately, however, Callaghan's survival could depend on Ulster M.P. Enoch Powell, the eccentric, disruptive genius of British politics. A former Tory and a bilious critic of Thatcher's, Powell just might rally key Unionist yeas behind Callaghan. In any case, the vote will be dicey. As Callaghan admitted last week, "This is the moment of truth...
...factory experience, along with a gradual disillusionment with political and unionist haggles that had set in the years before, finally led Weil to focus all her later, seminal writing on the question of how to alleviate this sense of enslavement. She rejected all forms of State domination, comparing both Hitler's fascist state and Stalin's Socialist state to the Republic and Empire of Ancient Rome, which she loathed. Even though she herself volunteered to fight alongside the Republic and during the Spanish Civil War, she pamphletted against France's involvement and against all forms of international war, abhoring...