Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every day at dawn last week, Cesar Chavez was out in the green and gold California fields, pleading with Mexican, Filipino, Yemenite and native American workers. At 7:15 a.m. one day, the charismatic Chicano had to halt his early-bird campaigning and leave the Elmco Ranch near Delano, Calif. The time had arrived for the 725 workers on the huge, grape-laden spread to decide whether to join Chavez's beleaguered United Farm Workers of America or remain in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which has held the union contract since 1973. The election yielded a margin...
...five-hour Cabinet meeting last week, Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel promised that an estimated $35 million would be spent to house all the survivors of Lice in similarly quake-proof homes. The U.S. was expected to offer help, but the Turks, still angered by Congress's halt of arms sales and military aid following the Cyprus conflict, were reportedly reluctant to accept American assistance...
Friendly Statement. Missionaries are still barred from China. But some of the delegates wanted to send a friendly message to the Chinese people, while others favored a declaration insisting that the Communist government halt repression of Christians. The presiding chairman of the meeting favored a hard line. He was "Brother Andrew," a Dutchman who smuggles Bibles into Communist nations. "We can never trust the Communist leaders," he said. "Dialogue is a moral farce." By week's end the group decided to broadcast a friendly statement to the mainland...
...nebulous nature of just how informed this informed consent was became a major issue in the effort to halt the research. It was also the issue that attracted the attention of two outside organizations: the Washington-based Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and the Massachusetts Advocacy Center. Informed consent was a legal consideration, not as important to Science for the People as the political matters at the heart of research, but critical to CDF, a group whose concerns include the rights of children who are the subjects of medical experimentation. "The legal issue, while the narrowest, was also the best...
...Owen's efforts came to an abrupt and traumatic halt in a bitter, five-week, factory-wide strike from which the company has never fully recovered. "It was pure hell," says Owen. "I couldn't live through anything like it again. For 18 months, issues were coming in at the rate of eight and twelve a day, mostly invented." The issue that finally triggered the strike was a management proposal to equalize the piecework pay system. Under the old system, wages for comparable work could vary by as much as 20% from department to department. "What they were...