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...local's officers. The union was placed under a court- appointed trustee until free elections could be held. While such suits have been attempted against organized-crime figures only ten times, top Justice Department officials concede they have underestimated the leverage the law can give them. They vow to follow up the convictions they have been winning with civil suits against the family leaders...
...delay -- intentional or not -- looked remarkably like a custom-made face-saving device. It will allow the President to avoid violating the SALT II ceilings without requiring him to repudiate his earlier vow to forge ahead with missile deployment. The delay, unconfirmed by the White House, might not be a gambit at all. But news of the delay spilled to the public at a time when the superpowers seemed to have reached an impasse in pre-summit talks. The U.S. wants to discuss "regional issues," like Soviet policy toward Afghanistan, Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East...
...Hopi Chairman Sidney and Navajo Chairman Peterson Zah were schoolmates, but as Sidney says, "When I was elected, the friendship took a vacation." Sidney threatens to break a sacred buckskin treaty wand if the Navajo do not evacuate Hopi land, which would signify the complete collapse of an ancient vow, and he refuses to entertain notions of a land swap or cash deal to settle matters. Each side is waging a sophisticated publicity campaign, assisted by experienced outside activists. Indeed, for all his talk of "sacred" Hopi lands, Chairman Sidney has posed for pictures in ancient Hopi villages, violating...
Roosevelt recalled the vow Kennedy made in his January announcement speech to debate his opponents "one at a time, or all at once...
...play basketball and became a black-power militant. Today Ford, 39, is living in the west-side Chicago neighborhood where he grew up. A nattily dressed real estate developer, he has a big house and two cars, one of them a BMW. But he has also kept the vow he made in college: to use his education as a lever to help other black people...