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...ACTWU) is unpretentious enough, strewn with pro-union posters and staffed by an assistant and a secretary. His stockiness, kind eye and tempered assertiveness create an image more of a humbled, once-great football player than of a powerful and controversial leader. But labor organizer Ray Rogers happens to wield a new weapon that may give workers a power far more effective than the traditional boycott or strike...
...CERT would get a firm answer to all of its requests within 30 days. And finally, he promised a thorough survey of mineral reserves in the Indian lands would be made so that the tribes can find out exactly what they have-and just how heavy a club they wield...
...that we can concentrate on development and finally we can attain victory. I would like the American people to realize that their genuine, true friends are here in this country. I have every confidence that we can continue our friendship. There is a Chinese expression that no one can wield a knife to cut the ties between two close friends...
...more than two hours after Bazargan's address, another kangaroo court was in session, and the prisoner was an international figure. The Komiteh, a group of activists around Khomeini who wield more effective power in Iran than the government, brought former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida from his cell in Qasr prison for a trial before an Islamic revolutionary court. Hoveida, who served as Prime Minister for almost 13 years under the Shah, was by far the most important official of the old regime to stand trial for his life. Ironically, he was jailed by the Shah late last...
Harvard does wield a lot of political clout in the city, as much or more than any other institution in Cambridge. The council is threatening to cut back on some of that power, though, in the wake of what Preusser termed "an institutional powerplay" by Harvard...