Word: worke
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...certain that the dispute is going to have a serious impact on U.S. foreign policy, on the Administration, and on the political future of Jimmy Carter. Nothing the President manages to work out short of outright capitulation by the Soviets is likely to mollify the hard-nosed critics of the Soviets who are demanding a firm stand. At immediate risk is the fate of the SALT II treaty; if the Senate turns it down, the defeat could seriously damage Washington-Moscow relations. Carter's handling of this sensitive matter, moreover, will be viewed as yet another severe test...
...tacit admission that the Administration has not handled the Soviet troops affair with sufficient skill, Carter enlisted about a dozen veteran foreign policy experts to study the impasse and suggest possible ways of ending it. Seven of these "wise men," as they were called by Carter aides, got to work almost immediately. Headed by Clark Clifford, the group also included John McCone, McGeorge Bundy and John McCloy, all of whom served as advisers to Kennedy and Johnson; David Packard of the Nixon Administration; Brent Scowcroft of the Ford Administration; and Sol Linowitz, a longtime presidential consultant who most recently...
...grief-stricken last March by the death of Eugenia, his wife of 59 years. Then, stepping out of a golf cart, he wrenched his knee and had a severe reaction to cortisone injections. After spending two months in the hospital and a month at home, he returned to work in August in a wheelchair. Meany was able to spend only a few hours a day in the office. "That just added to the stagnation," says an official at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington. "Nobody wanted to decide anything without hearing from George, and he was just not around enough...
...Meany was unable to maintain the momentum of unionism as more workers turned white collar. Union membership has shrunk from 34% of the work force when he became president to 23% today. Without Meany's capacity for reaching consensus, the fractious unions may have trouble working together. Says Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "His departure is as important as his presence. It's like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization...
...lives as yet." Just how much oil wealth will affect the average Mexican is uncertain. One worry is to what extent endemic corruption will siphon off some of those billions. Another is whether López Portillo's ambitious dreams of industrialization will really benefit the impoverished millions desperate for work, social services, or both. The 600,000 jobs promised by López Portillo, to cite one example, are 200,000 fewer than the number of youths who enter the work force every year. On balance, though, U.S. policymakers believe Mexico can surely avoid the kind of wrenching upheaval that...