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Mazowiecki may be hoping that, by removing the issues, he can demonstrate that the trade unionist's presidential bid is firmly rooted in personal ambition. He might be hoping as well that, in return for a crack at the country's top job, Walesa will allow the government to get on with governing...
Professor of Afro-American Studies Emeritus Ewart Guinier, who started the Afro-Am Department in 1969, was also a trade unionist and the first Black to run for Manhattan Borough President...
None of this was news to Australians -- or anyone who has read Blanche d'Alpuget's frank biography of the gregarious trade unionist whose back- slapping mateyness helped make him Australia's most popular politician. But why did Hawke choose this moment to make a prime-time confession? Supporters think Hawke was trying to make up for insulting media play of his wife's recent face-lift. Opponents had a more political explanation: to distract attention from the effect rising interest rates and a soaring deficit have had on his standing in the polls...
...week's end, as police scattering crowds killed at least one demonstrator, the government backed down and revoked the price increases while leaving the pay hikes intact. The swift reversal does not ensure a return to relative stability. The Democratic Unionist Party withdrew from Sadiq's coalition government, and the Prime Minister reportedly intends to form a new Cabinet with his other partner, the Muslim fundamentalist National Islamic Front...
Outside, Paisley, who heads the Democratic Unionist Party and has a reputation more for delivering fiery diatribes on street corners than for disrupting parliamentary proceedings, angrily complained that he had been "punched and hammered...