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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five days?illegal though it would be?unless the Postal Service agreed to new negotiations. Postmaster General William F. Bolger rejected the bid. The Postal Service then went to court to seek an injunction. When talks broke down, U.S. District Judge John Pratt issued a six-day temporary restraining order prohibiting union leaders from calling a strike. He also required union officials to send out messages to their members to comply with the injunction...
...erupted into a new round of rioting after more than 10,000 weeping, screaming citizens gathered to lament the dead. Mourners became ravagers who roamed the streets shouting anti-Shah slogans, smashing windows and starting fires. Government forces sent warning shots into the air in an attempt to restore order. The U.S. embassy warned American citizens to "maintain the lowest profile possible" while the unrest continued...
...horror stories people tell about it. Some tell tales of the Wandering Graduate Students who prowls the lower levels of the stacks feeding on old critiques of Medieval Scholaticism and accosting wayward freshmen who have lost the golden thread which they tied to the entrance of the stacks in order to find their way back. This stuff is just not true, nor are the tales of skeletal remains found in carrels or those of people who got locked in the stacks for weeks. Frankly, unless you have absolutely no directional sense at all you cannot get lost in the stacks...
...relied on questions of evidence -- questions over the pragmatic effect of Harvard's investments in South Africa. The moral issues, to be sure, attracted most of the protesting students to the movement, but once the battle lines were drawn, the students found themselves having to amass factual evidence in order to counter the Administration, which argued that it also found apartheid morally repugnant but believed that Harvard could best serve the interests of South African blacks by encouraging American companies there to introduce labor reforms...
...Slap quotas or tariffs on foreign oil to reduce imports. Carter can do this by executive order, and he said last week that he "would not hesitate" to use this power...