Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same spring, in the Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles, the largely Filipino grape pickers of the A.F.L.-. C.I.O.'s fledgling Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee won a brief strike for pay equal to that given field hands imported from Mexico. When the workers moved north to Delano at the end of the summer, grape growers there refused to make a similar agreement, and A.W.O.C. once more went on strike. On Sept. 16, which just happened to be Mexican Independence Day, Chavez's group held a tumultuous meeting and voted unanimously to join the walkout. The hall of the Roman Catholic...
...Common Market President Jean Rey. He ordered his aides to draw up a schedule of the other items that must be settled before Britain's admission could be taken up anew. "Don't take a vacation during the Christmas season," Rey warned newsmen. Before year's end, he expects marathon sessions to wind up the Common Market's interim period of tariff adjustments, to sort out the thorny agriculture support-price issue, and to grant increased supranational powers to the EEC's executive and parliament. Said Rey: "If the solutions are not ready at midnight...
...policy of "Yes, but"-a policy that Pompidou once characterized as "between two chairs, and I hope they fall on their derrière." Giscard landed on his feet, and now promises to proceed more subtly than before in restoring "economic and financial equilibrium" with a balanced budget, an end to exchange controls, and a fixed rate of economic expansion. Internationally, he advocates Common Market membership for Britain and a European "pool" of gold, foreign exchange and International Monetary Fund credits...
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...hope it will end within a year. But if it doesn't, I assure you that this country will continue to prosecute this war until we have dealt with the problem of secession...