Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders of 14 other parties last week. The pact was another step in Alfonsín's drive to maintain national unity at a time when the country is facing an annual inflation rate of 568% and growing labor unrest. Some 400,000 miners, bus drivers, waterworks employees and metal-and grain-workers are currently demanding wage increases...
Majid Abu-Gumaa and his cousin, Subhi Abu-Gumaa, had received "severe blows to the head and body" during the assault on the bus. But the two Arabs were still alive when security men took them to an adjacent field for questioning about whether or not the bus was booby-trapped for a delayed explosion. At some point be tween the retaking of the bus and the end of the interrogation, each man suffered "a blow dealt to the back of the head by a blunt instrument," fracturing the skull and killing...
...film of both photographers, the frame following the picture of the Arab prisoners shows Arens and Chief of Staff Lieut. General Moshe Levy standing near by. That has led some Israelis to wonder whether these officials, who directed the assault on the bus, knew what went...
...situation was not helped by an unfortunate remark Arens made in a radio interview minutes after the bus was rushed...
...police took place. Elsewhere, there were signs that the striking miners might be gathering support. Ken Livingstone, the radical leftist leader of the Greater London Council, called for a mass union uprising against Thatcher "because the government is starting to be vulnerable." He proposed "a total stoppage of every bus and tube train into London," as well as walkouts by hospital workers and teachers (who are already on selective strike). Livingstone does not control the unions, but he is a popular figure on the left...