Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...government also issued a joint statement calling for the resumption of the Jarring Arab-Israeli talks. And they conferred about this week's U.S. decision to establish a small air-naval-and-communications base on the British-held atoll of Diego Garcia to help offset the Soviet Union's growing naval presence in the Indian Ocean...
Last September the White House announced that the Soviet Union was building a base to service missile-carrying submarines at the south Cuban port of Cienfuegos. The news set off shock waves of fear that an East-West confrontation comparable to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis was imminent. But then the Soviets removed their submarine tender from Cienfuegos, and the moment of alarm seemed to pass...
...Nixon Administration faces a dilemma over how to react to the base at Cienfuegos. An outright confrontation with the Soviet Union, in an area deep within the traditional "U.S. sphere of influence," would almost certainly rule out the advancement of top-priority Administration objectives concerning the SALT talks, the war in Viet Nam, and the stalemate in the Middle East. The U.S. seems to be resigned to the presence of Soviet naval vessels in the Caribbean, with the submarines serviced in international waters from a tender based in Cuba. But it hopes that the Soviets will not force the issue...
...supercard signed by President Nixon, Vice President Agnew, the Governors of the 50 states and all the members of Congress. He also got a holiday shopping assignment: he's to "buy the boys soft drinks" with a check for $8,000 from the Women's Christian Temperance Union. With an 87-member troupe including Actress Ursula Andress, Cincinnati Reds Catcher Johnny Bench, and Miss World Jennifer Hosten, Hope will spend 15 days at military installations in Britain, West Germany, the Mediterranean, Thailand, Korea, Alaska and, of course, Viet Nam. "I hope it's the last time...
There were many other causes of business distress. While consumer demand for goods and services softened, U.S. labor's demands for more wages and fringes hardened. The nation lost more working time through strikes-60 million man-days-than in any year in the past decade. Major union contracts negotiated in the first nine months of 1970 called for annual increases averaging 10%. In a modern form of highway robbery, the militant Teamsters imposed a 15% increase, thus setting a target for the rest of organized labor. To head off what could have been a nation-paralyzing strike, Congress...