Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were tribal dancers and gymnastics displays and, on the stroke of midnight, a 101-gun salute. The South African flag was lowered; in its place was raised a banner of blue with a diagonal orange stripe and an inset of a leopard's head. In Mmabatho, the new capital carved out of the bush, the crowd roared its approval as President Lucas Mangope, head of the new government, declared that "at last we are no longer helplessly at the mercy of the arbitrary arrogance of those who until this hour trampled our human dignity into the dust...
Another Chinese classic scheduled for reissue is Midnight, a 1933 novel about an evil and greedy capitalist, by Shen Yen-ping; fittingly, perhaps, he adopted the pen name Mao Tun, meaning contradiction. After the Communist takeover in 1949, Mao Tun abandoned literature for politics and eventually became Minister of Culture. In 1965 he was fired-apparently at the behest of Mme. Mao-and his early fiction was banned. Last month the 81-year-old author reappeared in print after more than a decade of silence...
Faces covered with grit and hearts filled with distrust toward both union and company leaders, the nation's 165,000 male and 800 female unionized coal miners walked off their jobs last weekend, 48 hours before the expiration Monday midnight of the United Mine Workers' contract with the coal companies. (With so little time remaining, few miners felt compelled to work beyond the shift ending at midnight Saturday, and the companies were not scheduling Monday production.) Thus began what will probably be a long stoppage, perhaps twice as long as the 32-day walkout in 1974, over...
Some production certainly will be lost. Even if an industrywide agreement were reached before midnight Monday, at least ten days would be required for a U.M.W. vote to ratify it-and in the mine union "no contract, no work" is a religion. But the economy will not be hurt for a long time, nor will the strikers and the companies be subjected to pressure from major coal users to settle quickly. As of early November, the users' bins were overflowing with 150.1 million tons of coal that had been stockpiled in anticipation of a strike. Electric utilities held...
...concern about child abuse. Flynt spent a weekend with Stapleton and her veterinarian husband at their Fayetteville, N.C., home, and the Stapletons visited the Flynts' 23-room mansion in Columbus, where they discussed religion and sexual repression, Stapleton recalls. Flynt abruptly phoned her from San Antonio around midnight Nov. 17. "He was talking 90 miles an hour," she says. "Through the jumbled conversation I knew something real had happened...