Word: hr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Friends of the United Farm Workers (HR-UFW) held a continuous showing of two films, "Testimony: Justice vs. J.P. Stevens" and "Target, J.P. Stevens," yesterday in the Science Center lounge in an effort to educate the Harvard community about the reasons for the ongoing boycott of J.P. Stevens...
...HR-UFW has recently shifted its emphasis from the farm workers' movement to the Stevens boycott, following the UFW's national policy...
Still, much of the congress bore Teng's stamp. In his 3½-hr. address, Chairman Hua stressed a favorite Teng program: the "four modernizations" of agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. And a draft of a new national constitution for China introduced by Yeh hinted at wage increases and other incentives for workers, which Mao had opposed. Since coming to power, the troika has given some 20 million workers their first pay raises in almost two decades (though average urban salaries still remain in the $20-to $30-a-month range...
...network's Tel Aviv bureau manager, Joel Bernstein, caught up with Begin 6½ hr. later at the city's Hilton hotel. Bernstein led Begin to a room that CBS had hastily rented and equipped with a satellite link to New York. Cronkite and Begin then taped a long-distance interview; 2½ min. of highlights were fitted together with 3½ min. of Cronkite's earlier Sadat interview and broadcast that night on the Evening News. "I don't see anything extraordinary about it," says Cronkite. "It was just a normal day's work...
...Spielberg the film is a culmination of fantasies he has been nurturing since childhood. Always fascinated by UFOs, he still regrets missing a scout troop outing at which his friends claimed to have seen a blood-red orb looming in space. Firelight, a 2�-hr. amateur effort he made at 16, dealt with an invasion of monsters from another planet...