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...Two days before the event, William Hall, director of the U.S...

...The showcase of a lingerie store in Luther's Wittenberg featured a Luther quotation, placed beside a display of brassieres, beginning with the words, "No one knows how big it is...

...By generating public pressure, the union has been able to counter the concessionary demands and disinvestment policies of such corporate powerhouses as Gulf & Western...

...The local developed a speakers' bureau and sent workers to address meetings of other unions and community groups...

...It also lobbied the city council and the Massachusetts legislature— both of which subsequently passed resolutions supporting the workers...

...Even if Gulf & Western's disinvestment eventually caused the plant to close, at least we will keep our dignity...

...But a precedent has been set...

...Marine Corps duties were not detailed in the documents, but the Corps' overall responsibility comes through clearly in the Gibson letter...

...Marshals office in San Diego, wired Washington with the alarming news that there would be a "peaceful" demonstration by 500 persons and that perhaps twenty to forty would trespass on the site and try to get arrested...

...State Minister for Church Affairs Klaus Gysi has described the endeavor as a "great historical experiment...

...The remarkable revival of Martin Luther in East Germany flew in the face of the nation's official ideology...

...The plant lies within the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base...

...Around the country, union officials have brought the issue of unfair corporate demands to the attention of the media, gaining coverage on 60 Minutes, 20-20, and The David Susskind Show...

...We believe that the use of military personnel in these situations, even if lawful, could be embarrassing to the Government...

...Riordan echoed Chambers, stressing the need for developing political clout...

...The Justice Department developed a plan that drew on the firepower of the Marshals, the San Diego County sheriff, and the private San Onofre security force...

...A community meeting was called, attracting politicians and religious leaders...

...Plowing the Same Soil WATERLOO, IOWA More than 500 farmers and workers—unemployed and employed—gathered here one day last November "to build some coalitions," as one participant put it...

...He recalled his time as a Nicaraguan nationalist and strong opponent of the Somoza dictatorship...

...Frederick Engels branded German history "a complete and ongoing tale of misery" initiated by Luther and his Reformation...

...Marine Corps is best equipped to provide this protection," Associate Deputy Attorney General Larry Gibson wrote to the Southern California Edison Company in 1977...

...There are currently procedures for a military response in the event of a major civil disturbance which permit the use of U.S...

...To the Shores of San Onofre OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Critics of the nuclear power industry have long contended that the vulnerability of reactors to attack could be used to remove the distinction between civilian and military authority in this country...

...But the GDR leadership came around on Luther for the 500th anniversary of his birth...

...Nothing we could do would hurt G&W financially," says Rod Poineau, president of UE Local 277, which won a thirteen-week strike against the company's Morse Tool Plant in New Bedford, Massachusetts...

...Plans for an antinuclear demonstration in August 1977 set the utilities and the Government on edge...

...A churchman responded that he harbored similar fears, but then he brought down the house by quoting the motto of the year's mass church conventions: "Dare to trust...

...Ironically, on the morning of the rally, Rath filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter Eleven of the Federal bankruptcy code...

...He was "the initiator of a great revolutionary movement," said Communist Party and state boss Erich Honecker, though, of course, Luther also had an "incapability of recognizing its progression in accordance with the natural laws of social change...

...The talented aviator had been hired by the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) to help publicize the proposed shutdown of a Westinghouse plant in Tampa...

...Commander Zero, as Pastora was called during the Sandinista insurrection against dictator Anastasio Somoza, boasted that his 4,500-man army would some day march victoriously into Managua...

...Farmers across Iowa had donated sixty-eight hogs to provide free sausage for needy families in Waterloo, which suffers an unemployment rate of 17.3 per cent...

...After just one year in power, he charged, the Sandinistas began to oppress the people...

...The consulting firm backed up the workers' suspicions, finding that the profits of Morse Tool were being siphoned off by Gulf & Western for investment in other divisions of the conglomerate, such as Paramount Pictures...

...We had to rely on getting negative publicity for the company...

...The party is even said to have its first book on Otto von Bismarck in the offing...

...Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Company acquired the site by a Congressional grant of easement in 1967...

...About fifty people, mainly men wearing ARDE buttons, cheered Pastora on...

...There must be a plan and there must be direction" for this nascent coalition, said Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers, a black representing Omaha's inner city...

...But then Pastora shifted gears, and the audience warmed to him...

...There were so many workers, families, and community people who wanted to help work at the food bank that we eventually had to 'lay-off volunteers...

...he is now riding his steed down Unter den Linden...

...Local 277 asked the Industrial Cooperative Association of Somerville, Massachusetts, to study the relationship between Gulf & Western and its subsidiary...

...apparently, "blood and iron" can be forgotten and vociferous an-tisocialism can be forgiven...

...Border Patrol, and Marine Corps military police...

...By the end of the century, 80 per cent will have been starved off their farms," Hodne said, "and by 1990, no black farmers will be left in this country...

...Storming ashore in Lebanon and Grenada is tough enough...

...In the 1930s, it distinguished itself by organizing mass-production workers regardless of race, sex, or national origin...

...The Marshals were ordered to prevent damage to the reactor, process arrests, rescue members of the security force in danger of serious bodily harm, and prevent major property damage...

...Marshal Service simply does not possess the capability to provide either continuing protective service or protection against a major armed assault on the plant," Gibson wrote...

...He also addressed students in a seminar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies...

...The plant's thirty-five armed guards were to retain primary responsibility, but Justice officials also assigned a contingent of up to fifty Marshals from the Department's "special operations group" to support the utilities' hired guns...

...After about ten minutes, however, the remaining two-thirds of the audience, which included many Somocistas, resumed drinking and chatting, only half listening to Pastora's speech...

...Party historians in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) have customarily excoriated Luther as a "lackey of the princes" and "peasant butcher...

...Marines—with White House approval—were called out to "protect" the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant against unarmed demonstrators...

...The Marshals were told not to participate if such an agreement could not be reached...

...The UE has a tradition of militancy and independence...

...The USMC [United States Marine Corps] is probably understandably reluctant to become responsible for all local law enforcement in the area, as this could involve it in the control of peaceful demonstrations or civil disobedience relating to the power plant," Deputy Attorney General Mary C. Lawton wrote in a memo six days before Gibson sent his letter...

...The organizers of the rally stressed the link between the health of the farm economy and the welfare of city workers...

...The recent about-face was made even more awkward by the memory of 1933, the last major Luther commemoration, when the Nazis were pleased to brandish Luther's anti-Semitic writings...

...And he praised the Sandinistas for nationalizing Nicaragua's banks and natural resources and for launching a literacy campaign...

...A decade later, it stood apart from other unions by rejecting Cold War policies and labor witch hunts...

...Jack Colhoun (Jack Colhoun, who lived in Canada as a Vietnam war re-sister, is co-chair of the National Committee Against Registration and the Draft...

...Now there's evidence to substantiate those fears...

...These statements fell on un-receptive ears...

...The political differences and battlefield clashes of the past appeared to have faded as the exiles bury the hatchet in order to take up arms against the Sandinista revolution...

...ARDE is one of the contra organizations reportedly receiving money and military equipment from the CIA...

...To win over non-Marxists, who constitute the majority, the party is attempting to link the present system to popular national history and tradition...

...Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that Federal Marshals and U.S...

...Alan Ramo (Alan Ramo is an attorney and free-lance writer in Oakland...

...Last year, farmers paid more for their interest payments alone than they gained in net income," she said, adding that the debt load carried by farmers has doubled since 1970...

...Edison is one of the two major owners of the plant...

...Justice officials instructed the commanding Marshal to obtain an agreement that would allow his officers to control the situation if they intervened...

...We really have nothing to do here," a spokesman for the sheriffs office told the San Diego Union, adding that the demonstrators were "doing all the crowd control for us...

...And there is no legal impediment to their doing so...

...The UE local seized on the study and launched a "Stop Milking Morse" campaign in New Bedford as the workers went out on strike...

...Honecker now refers to Luther as "one of the greatest sons of the German people...

...Cuba and the Soviet Union are foreign invaders in Nicaragua, he continued, while the United States is now a friend of the Nicaraguan masses...

...Pastora did not hide his past...

...Bill Yoder (Bill Yoder is a free-lance writer in West Berlin...

...After thirteen weeks, Gulf & Western accepted a no-concession contract—in large part because of the determination and strategy of the workers...

...mona hochberg and Ed Feigen (Mona Hochberg and Ed Feigen are graduate students in the urban studies program at Tufts University who specialize in union responses to plant disinvestment and shutdowns...

...I hope we can pull people out of the milking factories and the farms, and start putting them in Congress," he said...

...The government's concessions during the Luther Year frighten me," said a participant at a church forum in Dresden last July...

...We perform witchcraft and magic to turn money into guns," he said...

...The 550 workers at Morse Tool set out to demonstrate that Gulf & Western, the twenty-seventh largest corporation in the world, was not properly maintaining the factory...

...Consequently, the Marines of Camp Pendleton are the only practical Federal alternative as a local law enforcement agency available to insure rapid response of the nature required by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...

...For every seven farmers we lose, one small business fails in small towns," said Carol Hodne, staff director of the North American Farm Alliance in Des Moines...

...The farm economy is in desperate straits, Hodne pointed out...

...Pastora kept a busy schedule: He met with Langhorne Motley, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, talked with selected lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and spoke to editors of The Washington Post...

...protecting American citizens from themselves may be the Marines' toughest assignment yet...

...West of Eden WASHINGTON, D.C...

...The same process which has made Luther "Comrade Martin" previously retrieved Frederick the Great from the weed-grown hedges of Potsdam...

...But the UE still recognizes the need for strong organizing in the workplace, thorough outreach in the community, and stamina for the long haul...

...Such an unorthodox approach is typical of the UE and helps explain why it is one of the most successful and radical unions...

...Accordingly, we suggest that arrangements be made for civilian law enforcement at demonstrations whenever possible...

...Rallies were held every Monday, a food bank was formed, and a hardship committee was established to assist workers facing grave financial difficulties...

...In a time when corporations are stripping unions of hard-earned gains, the victories of the United Electrical Workers hold an important lesson: Concessions need not be granted, and the labor movement need not roll over and play dead...

...The Justice Department was not unaware that civilian authority could be subverted by calling out the Marines...

...But Pastora's most revealing remarks were delivered to a crowd of anti-Sandinista Ni-caraguan exiles at a fund-raiser ARDE held at George Washington University...

...I'll turn your silver into lead...

...As it turned out, more than 1,000 protesters attended the peaceful rally in August 1977— under the watchful eyes of eighty Marshals, fifty San Diego County sheriffs deputies, members of the state highway patrol and the U.S...

...James C. Schwab (James C. Schwab is a freelance writer in Iowa City...

...We did it in the 1930s, and we can still put farmers, workers, and teachers in Congress today...

...At New Bedford, for instance, where the Morse Tool Plant has stood for more than 100 years, UE Local 277 ran a successful grass-roots campaign against Gulf & Western...

...The U.S...

...The party has expended much effort in recent years on wooing the Lutheran church...

...They came to forge unity between farmers and labor and to resist Rea-ganomics with social programs of their own...

...Four months later, the Carter Administration approved the use of the Marshals and the Marine Corps...

...Those folks showed their true character by providing this sausage in spite of what happened today," said James Riordan, a Shelby farmer who narrowly lost a bid to become Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture in 1982...

...In sanctioning Germany's past, the party is casting about for greater and broader legitimacy...

...The documents do not describe current security arrangements at San Onofre...

...But such caution, even if designed only for public relations purposes, was rejected...

...At the end of the party, which ARDE sponsored, cash and checks were collected...

...Today, the UE is again leading the way, this time in fighting concessions and enlisting the support of community groups...

...Luther's resurrection has brought new respectability to Lutherans here, but it has also raised some eyebrows...

...The ruling party now credits Luther as the father of the "early-bourgeois revolution" and, as such, the person who sent history marching from feudalism to capitalism and then on to socialism...

...The experiment means the state will respect the church as a societal entity and allow it some freedom to express dissenting political views...

...Armed Forces in such situations with prior Presidential approval," Jack LeCoyer of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs wrote to Edison...

...The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant sits on Federal land between Los Angeles and San Diego on the Pacific Coast...

...We all agreed there was no way we were going back into that plant taking pay cuts," says Poineau...

...No arrests were made...

...Lifted from the Dustbin of History EAST BERLIN All last year, placard portraits of Martin Luther scowled at passers-by from almost every store window and billboard between the Baltic Sea and Czechoslovakia...

...You need to do more than just picket," says Joe Matthews, a coordinator of the food bank, which found an outpouring of support in New Bedford...

...Publicity is central to the UE's strategy against concessions...

...Last November, Eden Pas-tora, Sandinista hero turned counterrevolutionary, visited Washington to win political support and raise money to buy arms for the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE), his Costa Rican-based guerrilla army...

...It was one of the unions expelled from the AFL-CIO for being "communist dominated," and it remains outside the federation...

...The U.S...

...Southern California Edison is aware of these provisions, and the Marine authorities at Camp Pendleton are prepared to provide assistance in those situations in which it is authorized...

...Rath Packing Company, the only employee-owned meat-packing firm in the nation, donated its services, processing and packaging the 11,000 pounds of sausage distributed at the rally site...