Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Echoing Glenn Seaborg's anticipation of U.S.-Soviet collaboration in atomic research, NASA officials announced that the two nations were planning a joint space mission that could come as early as 1974. The most likely first step, Americans and Soviet planners decided, will be to dock an Apollo spacecraft with a Russian space station similar to the Salyut now in orbit. Following this, the space scientists envision a link-up between a Soyuz spacecraft and an American Skylab scheduled for launch...
...Japan and the Soviet Union. Inside their holds lay cargo amounting to hundreds of thousands of tons, some of it already spoiled, consigned to destinations all over the U.S. In all, some 150 freighters have been rendered a Pacific mothball fleet by a strike of 15,000 West Coast dock workers. Last week the walkout moved into its third month, and there seemed little hope of an early settlement. "It takes a month to get everything shut up tight," says Union President Harry Bridges, who last led his men to the picket lines in 1948. "Then...
Shrinking Base. They may be there for quite a while. The major issue of the strike is neither wages nor benefits -though the union wants hefty increases in both-but a jurisdictional dispute with another union. At stake is the job of "stuffing and unstuffing" containers near the dock, an operation that increasingly is being handled by Teamster employees of freight-forwarding companies. San Francisco Teamster Boss Joseph Diviny has notified freight firms that his union has "no intention of giving up the work" and calls Bridges' claim that all dock labor belongs to longshoremen "a lot of baloney...
...fact, almost none of the 150,000 workers on strike when the freeze was declared have returned to their jobs. Dock Workers Chief Harry Bridges, whose men have paralyzed West Coast shipping for nine weeks, has pledged that they will not go back to work until a contract has been signed, presumably one with a hefty post-freeze pay raise. Perhaps the major test of union strike intentions will come on Sept. 30, when the coal miners' contract expires...
...Nixon Administration pleaded with labor leaders to make a voluntary end to existing strikes in order to help the economy pick up at the maximum possible speed. The most devastating strike under way is the West Coast dock stoppage, now eight weeks old, led by Harry Bridges. It is likely to continue. Bridges wired Nixon that the freeze "favors the rich," and he added: "We are with you in your desire to stop inflation in our country, but it is wrong to pick on the workers, who suffer first and the most from inflation...