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...store as a follow-up. Patience is admittedly a virtue but four years is a bit long to wait for any album. The disc was finally released after the resolution of numerous hassles with Mason's record company and although listenable, it was hardly on a per with its predecessor. His third release, which just came out a couple of days ago, seems to resemble the first in compositional quality as well as musicianship. That part is reassuring, at least as far as Mason's choice of material for his current tour is concerned. Although I've never seen Mason...
...MEMBER AGRICULTURAL WORKERS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION": This organization is funded by Teamster and grower money and had a predecessor known as the "Agricultural Workers Freedom to Work Association." This group was disbanded because of the lawsuit filed by the UFW, charging that the group was in violation of the Landrum-Griffin Act which prohibits employee groups being funded by employers. This group was closely allied with the National Right to Work Committee and the National and California Farm Bureaus, who were all opposed to any union and its activities...
...Senate revolt was directed not so much against Ford as against his predecessor and at what many regard as the clandestine tactics of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Still angered by the disclosure of the CIA's intervention in Chilean politics, Senators saw a chance to strike back when a resolution authorizing a temporary continuation of foreign aid came to the floor last week. A majority voted an amendment banning military aid to Chile. Then, by a much larger margin, the Senate voted to cut off military assistance to Turkey on the ground that U.S. weaponry had been used...
...General Motors (all but four in finance), Murphy, 58, took the final step in from the cold; the serious, spectacled accountant was named chairman and chief executive of General Motors, the most prestigious corporate post in the world. "Murph" will take office Dec. 1, a week after his predecessor, Richard C. Gerstenberg, who earned $923,000 in salary and bonus last year, reaches GM's mandatory retirement...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Caetano regime, supported his deputy; both were ousted from their posts. His following in the military is said to be as large and as loyal as that of Spínola's; he is also considered a better politician than his predecessor. The real winner in last week's shake-up is undeniably Gonçalves, 53, a quick-tempered, idealistic former army engineer who is widely regarded as the principal architect of the April 25th revolution. Says one longtime political observer in Lisbon: "Gonçalves has about him a little...