Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...points the trustees want cleared up include a no-strike clause, the contract's termination date, and the method for determining salary increases. Administrators are particularly concerned about the wording of the no-strike clause because they fear the faculty might hold a sympathy strike when negotiations begin with the clerical workers and librarians. Faculty leaders have signed a pledge of mutual support with the other unions and they do not hide their sympathy for them. The administration is very aware of the danger because buildings and grounds workers--although formally barred by their contract from holding a sympathy strike...
...shaking with outrage and fear. I've had one traffic ticket in my life, with none of the strip searching in the police station [March 19] you mention. However, I would probably become a basket case if such a thing did happen to me. A person seems to be guilty until proved innocent. I don't want to sue after it happens; I want to keep it from happening...
...addition to worrying about rape whenever I get into my car alone, I have to fear being hauled into a police station where, for some minor traffic offense, I may undergo a publicly financed sexual assault...
...your article "A Fallout of Nuclear Fear" [March 12], you stated that unlike the U.S., France has not stopped nuclear tests in the atmosphere. In fact, the last French above-ground tests were conducted in the summer of 1974. President Giscard d'Estaing announced at that time that France had reached the stage in its nuclear defense program that permitted it to switch to underground testing. This has been the case ever since...
...That fear is already evident. In Boston last week, after listening to a group of antinuclear physicians proclaim the hazards of radiation in a series of papers, a young woman whose husband had to go to Harrisburg on business stood up and addressed the panel. Said she: "I don't want him to go, but he says it's his job. We're having a big fight." Would he be safe? she asked the physicians. None could give her a firm answer...