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Despite the flood of anti-union literature issued by Harvard, despite the anti-union meetings, the administration failed to wield the critical weapons at its command--leaving top officials, supervisors and legal tactics out of the fray...
...really didn't want the union, why didn't he come out forcefully against it? Speeches, the press and meetings were all tools at his command, but he spurned them for a mainly behind-the-scenes role...
Aides expressed confidence he would command a nominating majority by the time the primary season ends on June 7 with elections in California, New Jersey and two other states, and Dukakis has begun campaigning with one eye on Jackson and the other on the fall campaign against Bush...
...masterminding a large number of P.L.O. terror attacks over the years. Yet al- Wazir's death was also intended to decapitate the intifadeh, the five- month- old uprising that has rocked the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank. As head of the P.L.O.'s "western-sector command," he was in charge of the organization's support for the rebellion. Killing him, the Israelis believed, would deal the uprising a serious blow...
Each faction has its own "striking units," bands of dedicated activists who turn out on command to throw the stones, manufacture the Molotov cocktails, set up the road barricades and harass the army. "It's like a job," says Mahmoud. "This is their daily business." The striking units in his camp work from 10 to 6 every day, he says. "Now we are establishing new units to work at night." At this street level, there is relatively little factional rivalry or outside supervision. Only occasionally does each representative turn to his headquarters for orders. The closest thing to an outside...