Word: labor
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...causation and execution, the murder of Martin Luther King was both a symbol and a symptom of the nation's racial malaise. The proximate cause of his death was, ironically, a minor labor dispute in a Southern backwater: the two-month-old strike of 1,300 predominantly Negro garbage collectors in the decaying Mississippi river town of Memphis. The plight of the sanitation workers, caused by the refusal of Memphis' intransigent white Mayor Henry Loeb to meet their modest wage and compensation demands, first attracted and finally eradicated Dr. King, the conqueror of Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma...
...even though Johnson was tagged a lame duck as soon as he announced his intention to withdraw, he is now in fact a bird of rather singular muscularity. He retains the allegiance of countless party regulars, labor officials, businessmen and civil rights leaders. There is every likelihood that his rating in the public-opinion polls will rise considerably as a result of the renunciation. Together, these factors will give him considerable leverage, which he has not had in recent months. And Lyndon Johnson, who above all else craves a favorable verdict from history, will undoubtedly use those levers...
...exercised by the working class"-which means, of course, the Communist Party. In a tacit reference to the Wall, the new document confines freedom of movement for East Germany's 17 million people to the country's boundaries. In hopes of easing East Germany's labor shortage, it declares that all citizens have the duty to work...
When he arrived back in Canada, Trudeau drifted from job to job, editing a political science magazine, teaching constitutional law at the University of Montreal and acting as a labor lawyer. Then, three years ago, he entered politics and won a parliamentary seat from an English-speaking constituency in Montreal. "After 15 years in the role of critic," he explained, "I think it's time to go out and try to do the job myself...
...exports, resulting in a chronic balance of payments deficit. To right the balance, the country in 1965 resorted to a tough dose of economic mitun (restraint), which slowed inflation, though at the cost of a standstill economy and mounting unemployment (now 8%) in Israel's 927,000-man labor force. Mitun was a casualty of the Six-Day War, as Israel was forced to simply print most of the war's $1¼ billion cost (though $550 million later flowed in from worldwide contributions...