Word: ch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first breakthrough in the bitter fight between growers and workers, who have been on strike for recognition since last September, had been achieved by the massive support given to the strikers by California's churches. "It is the single most important thing that has helped us," says Cesar Chávez, organizer of the union...
...Moral Issue. When the strike began, Chávez could count on the sympathy of only a few churchmen, mostly the radical young Protestants of the California Migrant Ministry. Gradually, more influential Christian leaders came to see in the strike a moral issue: the need to end the grapes-of-wrath poverty of the farm workers...
...theories." But now that Schenley has agreed to accept the union, most of the vineyards are expected to follow suit. Delano's largest grower, Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., has already agreed to let its workers vote on whether they wanted a union or not. (Two other unions besides Chávez's Farm Workers Association are trying to organize the vineyards...
...April 1, 1967, the NATO military headquarters themselves must be dismantled, and all U.S. and Canadian troops now in France moved elsewhere. Delays may be possible in certain cases, such as an aircraft-repair complex near Châteauroux, which just happens to employ 2,900 French civilians...
...even try for a vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa's Château Laurier after all. In any case, he added emphatically, what they discussed was no affair of state...