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...rushed the Langa police station. The police again opened fire and killed at least two more people. Other demonstrators set up roadblocks and stoned trains and buses to prevent workers from going to their jobs in Cape Town. There, as in Johannesburg's Soweto, the tactic failed to disrupt business and industry seriously, but managed to intimidate many black workers. As one Johannesburg worker told Lee Griggs, TIME'S Africa bureau chief: "They scare me. This morning some young ones tried to make me stay in Soweto. 'Do not go,' they said. 'Today we march...
...event in this year's crowded calendar of bargaining bouts. Nearly 700,000 of the 4.5 million workers involved in bargaining this year labor under pacts with GM, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors that expire Sept. 14. Every auto negotiation carries the threat of a strike that could disrupt the economy, but veteran bargainers on both sides rate the chances of settling without a strike this year as the best in memory. Main reason: the industry is booming, its workers are prospering and neither side sees much to justify a knockdown fight...
...therefore disrupt their social life," says ICIPE'S Gilbert Oloo. "It will be an efficient and environmentally safe mode of control...
Duehay said in his opinion the city does own the land in question, but that putting it to use as park land would be "inappropriate" and would unduly disrupt pedestrian traffic in the area...
...hunted for signs of Communist influence in the N.A.A.C.P., although a report in the first year of the investigation said the organization had a "strong tendency" to "steer clear of Communist activities." There were more chilling examples of excesses by the FBI. Operation COINTELPRO (counterintelligence program), which sought to disrupt dissident groups, tried to get members of the Black Panthers and a black activist group based in California, US, Inc., to kill one another. The cold-eyed crusade against Martin Luther King Jr.-"the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country"-included not only the familiar taping...