No Right To Strike In Postal Workfaces Legal Penalties
The Reagan administration held firm as postal union threats of a nationwide walkout failed to materialize. A tentative agreement averted a damaging stoppage, underscoring that public employees have no right to strike, with possible swift legal consequences for violators. The president’s stance signals unions will face penalties for illegal actions and that federal labor laws constrain public sector strikes.
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Reagan
William L. Rusher Looks Back On The Second World War
In this reminiscence William L. Rusher examines the wartime treatment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. He notes 56,000 native-born Nisei and 37,000 Issei in California and warns how fear and suspicion shaped policy. Executive Order 9066 ordered mass relocations, though loyalty ultimately proved high among Nisei and Issei.
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New York
Japan
Pearl Harbor
California
Congress
Washington
Nisei
Issei
United States
America
Roosevelt
FDR
Overhaul urged for federal school lunch gift program
Ray Cromley reports on a billion dollar a year Agriculture Department program delivering gift commodities for school lunches and meals for the aged. The system produced late deliveries, unverified student needs, and costly spoilage. Locals cited frozen turkey surpluses stored by parents and markets, and Texas districts showed multi year vegetable and bean stockpiles.
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Washington
CNF
Agriculture Department
Food Stocks Run Long In School Programs And Wartime Relocation
A survey across several states shows school and elder feeding programs hoarding food far beyond recommended storage times. Peanut butter and canned poultry exceeded limits by over a year, while raisins flour and other items reached multi year reserves. The text also notes mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1944 and later acknowledged as a grave civil rights violation.
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Parent Teacher Association
Texas
Missouri
Japan
Supreme Court
Carter Junkets Highlight Looming First Class Travel
GAO tally shows more than 300 Carter appointees took 798 trips abroad between Election Day and Inauguration Day costing about 454000. Examples include Energy Secretary Duncan flying Concorde to Paris for an energy conference and Deputy Lynn Coleman joining, plus Marshall and aides on a China Japan tour and other first class travels amid lame duck period.
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GAO
Carter
Charles Duncan
Paris
Lynn Coleman
Leslie Goldman
DOE
International
Coleman
Duncan
Ray Marshall
New York
Chicago
San Antonio
San Francisco
Atlanta
China
Japan
Marshal
Asian Junket
Nik Edes
Congress
Dale Hathaway
International Affairs
Agriculture Department
Adelaide
Australia
Jesse McCorry
Health and Human Services Department
Montreux
Switzerland
Whatever Happened To Downtowns
CAPT. PAULH. DAVIS reflects on Princeton’s Mercer Street during a Saturday visit. He notes sidewalk work, empty shops, and rising nightlife crowding out local businesses, urging readers to value named small merchants and reexamine tax and lending policies shaping towns and government priorities.
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Paulh. Davis
U.S. Navy
Princeton
Mercer Street
Key West
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Mr. Moshe
Chris
Bill Jones
Western Auto
Bill
Red Baron
Willie
Katherine Puckett
Bane
Mr. Jones
Main Street USA
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Hugh Ike Shott
Hugh Shott
Richard Wesley
Berry's
New Right Tabernacle Choir
William L. Rusher
Hawaiian Islands
Copley News Service
Mildred
Ray Cromley
Montana
Jack Anderson
Jimmy Carter
Hugh Carter
White House
Georgia
General Accounting Office
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