Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fulbright shocked proud Australians by admitting he was "not aware" of Australia's commitment (1,550 men) to Viet Nam. In any case, he added loftily, he did not favor "great wars." Sensitive Aussies, who have been divided on their own role in the war, reacted predictably. Snapped Labor M.P. Albert W. James: "If this is the extent of the United States' interest in our efforts, the government should seriously consider withdrawing our troops...
...mail from all over the U.S., addressed simply: "G.I. Joe, Viet Nam." A high school in New York State is raising money to send a G.I. wife to a Christmas reunion with her husband in Hong Kong or Manila. An offer of 500 cases of beer from a Cincinnati labor union was regretfully declined by the Defense Department. Gratefully accepted was a continuing flood tide of blood donations from thousands of students at more than 60 campuses from Appalachia to Austria...
Landslide Victory. When the votes were counted, O'Neill's party was back in with a landslide, having won 36 of the Parliament's 52 seats. The Nationalists retained their nine seats, but the Irish Labor Party, which is informally allied to the British Labor Party, lost two seats, ending up with only two. All of which meant that O'Neill would probably have five full years to keep Northern Ireland moving. It also meant five easy years for the Prime Minister's chauffeur, for O'Neill likes to wheel around his official black...
...newly independent nation. At the industrial capital of Bulawayo (which means "Place of Slaughter" in the Sindebele language), a policeman shot and killed an African member of a mob stoning a bus. Soon the entire African community, usually docile, was up in arms. Half the city's labor force walked out in protest. Factories, shops and restaurants closed. Street sweepers laid down their brooms. At Bulawayo's fashionable Hotel Victoria, guests were forced to make their own beds. Tear gas and threats to fire all strikers finally restored a semblance of order, but not before black nationalist agitators...
...impact of information technology on business (his total fee: $1,000,000), and is negotiating with the government of an East European satellite to teach its managers U.S. business techniques. That project has been approved by the U.S. Government, which has often engaged Diebold as an adviser to the Labor Department, the Peace Corps, and the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Science Conference. Says Diebold: "I'm not interested in being heard by everyone, but I want to function in the mainstream, where the action...