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...precisely what Carter is doing. But conservatives can sponsor resolutions condemning what Carter has done. Or, as seems likely, they can try to block the nomination of Carter's choice for first U.S. Ambassador to Peking, who must be confirmed by the Senate. That nominee is expected to be Woodcock...
Brown's other line of defense was to contend that Farber and former Bergen County Prosecutor Joseph Woodcock had conspired to frame Jascalevich. Claiming that he was looking for evidence to support that theory, Brown demanded Farber's notes. Farber refused, citing the First Amendment and a New Jersey shield law allowing reporters to keep their sources confidential. Moreover, he insisted he had no information that would establish Jascalevich's guilt or innocence. Farber was cited for contempt, jailed and fined $2,000; the Times was fined $100,000 plus $5,000 for each day of the trial the reporter...
MARRIED. Leonard Woodcock, 67, chief of the U.S. liaison mission to the People's Republic of China and former president of the United Automobile Workers; and Sharon Tuohy, 35, a State Department nurse on Woodcock's staff; in Peking; he for the second time, she for the first...
...work weeks, the number seems destined to grow substantially in the years ahead. Last October the United Auto Workers signed a three-year contract with Ford that gives U.A.W. workers a total of 45 annual paid days off by 1979; this inspired the union's then president, Leonard Woodcock, to proclaim: "We are on the road to a four-day week. The principle is there...
Social Goals. Fraser, too, is an emblem of that unity. Like Woodcock, he is a man in the mold of Walter Reuther, the visionary U.A.W. president who was killed in an air crash seven years ago. Once a metal finisher in a De Soto plant, Fraser became a boy-wonder local president and was Reuther's administrative assistant for most of the 1950s. As a union vice president in 1970, he seemed a likely choice to inherit "the Redhead's" post, but lost out when the union's executive board recommended Woodcock by one vote. More gregarious...