Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line, other motorists filled up their tanks and drove off without paying. In Levittown, Pa., in an outbreak originally caused by truckers demonstrating against high diesel fuel prices, some 2,000 motorists and thrill-seekers clashed with the police in three days of rioting. Police arrested nearly 200. Local officials declared a state of emergency and enforced a curfew that prohibited more than five people's getting together on the streets after 9 p.m. Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh helped restore order by bringing another 500,000 gal. of gas into the area and imposing a statewide odd-even purchase...
...stay idle. Monthly payments for their rigs are as high as $2,000, more than the cost of most home mortgages. They stand to lose a lot of money by refusing to work, and they do not have a strike fund. They also ran into a tough reaction from local governments. Admits Mac Vernon, a spokesman for the Independent Truckers Association: "Local officials are getting injunctions to stop picketing and blockading, and some companies are saying, 'You either run or you're fired...
...Defense Districts (PADDS). Late each month, the oil companies estimate just how much fuel they will have available for sale in each region in the coming month. From this total supply, they subtract 5% to be set aside and distributed at the discretion of state authorities to alleviate local crises. They then subtract the amount they will require to supply all the needs of top priority customers like the military and farmers. The rest gets divided among retail gas stations...
Giangregario worked in the dining halls during the year and belongs to Local 26, the Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Employees Union. Frederick E. Walden, business agent for Local 26, said yesterday the union is defending Giangregario and has provided him with a lawyer. Giangregario could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...party press "will publish no photographs, only a news item, profile and commentary provided by PAP." Some of the larger newspapers, like Trybuna Ludu (circ. 900,000) and Zycie Warszawy (circ. 360,000), were given permission to publish their own commentaries, as were "sociopolitical weeklies" and some local periodicals. Everything, however, had to be cleared in advance. One topic that was strictly taboo: the political past of the Pope, who was a nemesis of the Communists while Archbishop of Cracow...