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...Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons can bend. If he stays firm and wins a big settlement, that may help him fight off small but growing and vocal dissident movements within his union. The insurgent groups-Washington-based PROD Inc. and the Teamsters for a Democratic Union in Detroit-aim to wrest control of the scandal-scarred union's leadership. The rebels want more democracy and a cleanup...
...Princeton Tigers managed to wrest the crown from 1978 champion Penn on the strength of their depth and consistency. Each one of their nine fencers captured at least eight of his 12 bouts...
...from $11,964 to $16,764, for patrolmen, contract coverage for ranking officers, and binding arbitration in disputes over noneconomic issues. The city balked. The new demands would have cost an additional $ 19 million, which it claimed it did not have. Morial accused the Teamsters of trying to wrest control of the police department from the city. The police walked out again, despite a back-to-work court order...
...largely automated natural gas plants, provided too few jobs for a population that has grown from 12 million to 18 million since he took over. In foreign affairs, Boumedienne lost some prestige in the Arab world by backing and providing bases for the Polisario rebels, who seek to wrest the former Spanish Sahara from neighboring Morocco and Mauritania. His successor must decide whether to continue that fight...
...outside the family during the sensitive years of his transfer of power. The chairmanship of Ford Motor Co. is the last hereditary throne in American big business, and Henry II wants to make sure another Ford takes it over. Mindful of his own battle in the mid-1940s to wrest control of the company from Director Harry Bennett, who had gained sway over his aged grandfather Henry I, Henry II wants no willful executives who might contest a smooth succession...