Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intense that discrimination is a costly luxury. They tend to have young managers and are located near university centers or in communities that have a tradition of liberalism. They are also growing faster than established companies and offer more rapid promotion. In the eyes of many black management recruiters, IBM rates highest. Polaroid, Xerox, Control Data and Honeywell also offer considerable opportunities for blacks, as do many food, liquor and clothing companies, which make products that blacks buy in large quantities. The fewest opportunities are generally in big, old industries that have a record of political conservatism. Among them: steel...
...demolition experts continued to probe the 11th Street wreckage for more explosives-and perhaps more bodies-bombs exploded at the Manhattan headquarters of Mobil Oil, IBM and General Telephone and Electronics. An organization that styled itself "Revolutionary Force 9" claimed responsibility. No one was hurt in the early-morning blasts, which were strikingly similar to three blasts in several New York office buildings last Nov. 11, but during the following two days news of the explosions triggered an outbreak of more than 600 phony bomb scares in a jittery New York. Three Molotov cocktails exploded in a Manhattan high school...
EARLY last Thursday morning, explosives planted in three buildings in midtown New York City seriously damaged the offices of General Telephone and Electronics, IBM, and Mobil Oil. The explosion at IBM was so extensive that 600 employees had to report elsewhere for work on Thursday, and the damage at Mobil forced its office to close...
...letter which reached UPI shortly after the explosions, a party calling itself "Revolutionary Force 9" claimed credit for the acts. "IBM. Mobil, and General Telephone are enemies of all life," the letter explained. "All three profit not only from death in Vietnam, but also from American imperialism in all of the Third World...
...successful strategy against the economic monolith will not result from secretive acts of terrorism, but from mass actions against corporations and the government to achieve economic and social gains. As it was, the bombing barely succeeded in closing IBM and Mobil for a day. A successful strike would close these firms and end war production until they had effected far-reaching changes in basic policy...