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...jobs in the industry had touched off the conflict, stood by its policies but left the way open for a negotiated settlement. Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock attacked Thatcher's handling of the crisis but conspicuously avoided making the strike a party cause: the walkout is unpopular with many of Labor's moderate voters. In forcing last week's confrontations, Scargill seemed to be making a bold bid to shore up support in the face of rapidly dwindling strike funds. But his flamboyant intransigence made him seem less interested in saving jobs than in taking...
...caused, among other things, cancer and liver damage in many of the soldiers, miscarriages in some of their wives and birth defects in some of their children. The five-year legal struggle, which came to symbolize the bitter suffering and frustration of the veterans of America's most unpopular war, culminated in a $180 million out-of-court settlement, the largest mass-damage award ever negotiated...
...reluctant to make substantial new loans, the IMF had to take over the job of keeping the Third World afloat. But that role has often placed the organization in the middle of its clients' political problems. When a country's Finance Minister wants an excuse for an unpopular economic measure, such as curbing inflation by holding the line on wages against the demands of angry unions, he frequently blames...
...Texas, where Government bailouts are unpopular, Mondale will downplay the selling points he used so well in the East, like his helping to rescue Chrysler from bankruptcy and advocating trade barriers to protect industry. Instead, say his aides, Mondale will preach "prairie populism" and stress that he worries about "real people, real jobs and real pocketbooks." He will particularly target large areas of poverty like the Rio Grande Valley, where unemployment...
...Israeli citizens, concluded with a statement to the effect that the teach-in appeared to be designed "to show support for these terrorist acts." To call this a crude attempt at innuendo would be a gross under-statement. Does this mean that anyone who wished to listen to an "unpopular" point of view on the Palestinian issue supports terrorism...