Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They still have the money coming in and we don't," said Al Brown, picket captain at a NYNEX special service center in Boston's Dorchester section. But the union vowed to stay on strike for as long as necessary...
...Union spokespersons said picket lines had been drawn in front of at least 60 of NYNEX's 98 New England locations, but no other disturbances were reported yesterday...
Also worrisome to Gorbachev may be the workers' determination to become a force in upcoming union and local elections. Gorbachev says he wants to keep them inside officially sponsored organizations, urging their leaders to "think over what happened and what to do to make sure unions carry out their role." In spite of his efforts, though, he could find himself nursing the birth of an independent union movement like Solidarity, which has remade Poland's government and politics...
Democracy is an innovation in the Soviet Union. The leaders and the led are inventing it as they go along. But at the top it is essentially a one-man show: Gorbachev handles everything from party conclaves and press conferences to Supreme Soviet sessions to meetings with a stream of foreign visitors. He has looked red-eyed and weary on recent trips to London and Paris, and last week it was reported that he went for three nights without sleep because of the endless meetings. Gorbachev is under terrific pressure to produce the goods, literally, before his time runs...
...want to miss any signals from the Soviet Union," Bush told TIME a few days ago, then added with unusual firmness, "I am not going to mishandle the Soviet account...