Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working-class suburb of Vallecas, so leftist that even in Franco days it was known as "Little Russia," a factory worker talked proudly of his Socialist vote?though he allowed that Suárez was simpático. "I am 34 and these elections are good for me, but mainly they are good for my children," he said. "We don't want to think about the civil war. That was a crime. Brother against brother. No one wants it again...
Four decades just could not be swept away overnight. When the first Communist campaign caravan rolled through Ciudad Real, old women crossed themselves. "As far as they were concerned, we were people with horns on our heads and bombs under each arm," said a party worker. "That's all they had ever known." While leftist parties did open some offices in villages, they made few converts. In one pueblo, a leftist coalition called a rally and found exactly two people in attendance. "Comrades," began one of the speakers, whereupon the two men stepped forward and identified themselves as Civil Guards...
...uncertain threat. It casts an inevitable shadow over the heart breakingly lovely landscape, over everything that is done, every political act, every economic plan, every white hope. In the mind of the white South African, there is usually very little connection between the two incarnations: the houseboy, the factory worker, the shop assistant are so familiar and often so placid that one can scarcely link them with that other, menacing force. Partly that is because black life is hidden and to a great extent silent. And yet slowly, slowly, the two black images are converging. To the whites' shocked...
...determined to make the encouragement of human rights a key part of his foreign policy despite the danger of exacerbating relations with some countries. In Recife, Brazil, Rosalynn met with two American missionaries-the Rev. Lawrence Rosebaugh, 42, a Roman Catholic priest, and Thomas Tapuano, 24, a Mennonite worker-who had been jailed on trumped-up charges and mistreated for four days. "I have listened to their experience," she said later, "and I sympathize with them." She added, as she had at all her stops, "I have a personal message to take back to Jimmy...
...need for worker vigilance and continued agitation was underscored by the debate surrounding the University's distribution of summer jobs to the workers. Last spring, the University changed a long-standing policy of offering unemployment benefits to workers during the three-month summer layoff period. Instead, the University began to offer its employees temporary jobs to tide them over the summer months. On the surface, the change might appear to be generous attempt to offer workers full summer salaries instead of the lesser compensation of unemployment benefits...