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Carter's first stop was his most important: the United Auto Workers' annual convention, in Los Angeles, where he made a speech to 6,000 delegates, alternates and guests. The delegates had gathered to elect Douglas Fraser to succeed retiring President Leonard Woodcock, the Administration's choice as head of the U.S. liaison office in Peking (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Although most of the U.A.W.'s leaders were among Carter's strongest union supporters last year, many of them fear that he is abandoning his campaign promises of social reforms in favor of balancing the budget...
...Leonard Woodcock, LL.D., outgoing president of United Auto Workers...
...have been a nationalist celebration in Edinburgh. But the hoopla last week was in Los Angeles, where Scottish-born Douglas Fraser, 60, assumed the presidency of the 1.4 million-member United Auto Workers at the union's triennial constitutional convention. First came an emotional farewell by retiring Leonard Woodcock, whom President Carter has named to head the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Then, after a brief, symbolic challenge by a black local union officer from Michigan, the U.A.W. delegates approved Fraser by acclamation, reflecting the solidarity that has characterized the union for decades...
Hanoi is a city mobilized for peace, reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who spent three days there while accompanying the special commission headed by United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock (TIME, March 28). Returning to Washington last week, Talbott wrote these impressions of the Vietnamese capital...
This impression of recovery and calm also pervaded the presidential palace. Perhaps to enhance the new mood of accommodation, the Vietnamese seated Dong and Woodcock at a tea table flanked with bouquets of carnations, chrysanthemums and gladiolas. At one point, Dong came out to talk with U.S. reporters. "Your good will ... makes us happy and grateful. Now is the time for reconciliation." The Premier then raised his hands, palms together, in a gesture of friendship and went back into the room, presumably to deliver much the same message to Woodcock...