Word: abel
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There are rumors that a swap may in fact be in the works. Wolfgang Vogel. the East Berlin lawyer who was instrumental in the exchange of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel, is active in the case. So is Manhattan Lawyer Maxwell Rabb, secretary to the Cabinet during the Eisenhower Administration who has negotiated the release of seven Americans from East Germany since 1965. If the Soviets are determined to bring about a better climate in Berlin, Moscow may try to pressure the East Germans to free the students. But there is also...
...Moscow suburb. Arrested in 1961 while posing as a Canadian businessman in London, Lonsdale was identified as the chief of operations of a spy ring in Britain. In 1965 he wrote a book, Spy, in which he bragged that he was also a communications aide for Colonel Rudolf Abel's famed ring in the U.S. during the 1950s...
Mutinous Mood. Last week, however, no fewer than 1,000 resolutions from union locals demanded an end to the no-strike clause and the slow arbitration process. Union President I.W. Abel managed to prevent the issue from coming to a vote, but he will be under continued severe pressure from the membership to abolish the clause. Abel's reasoned brand of trade unionism is being challenged by militant union members, who are angry about inflation, unemployment, student protest and the direction of society in general. As evidence of the rank and file's mutinous mood, several...
...convention delegates cheered last week, Abel set an aggressive tone on other matters. "We will want a wage increase, and not just another wage increase, but a very, very substantial one," he said. "We want a shorter work week. We want still better pensions." Besides all that, Abel gave his "solemn pledge" that a cost-of-living escalator, which the U.S.W. gave up in 1959, will be restored. He will also propose that the entire steel industry shut down for two weeks' vacation in the summer. That would be a costly proposition to the mill managers, who would have...
Testifying recently before a congressional committee, United Steelworkers President I.W. Abel summed up the prevailing feeling of the workers: "It's a mood of great uncertainty, of great frustration coupled with anger, a feeling of some helplessness in the face of what has been happening, a hesitancy about what lies in store for the future." That mood has been reflected in the new militance of labor. Rank-and-file members this year have rejected one contract in eight negotiated by union leaders. And it has not been lost on union members that Chicago Teamsters Local 705, by refusing last...