Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, Coors has the right to make a fool of himself. Even at Harvard. Fortunately, the nearly 200 students and union workers who protested against Coors last Wednesday night did not try to deny him his right. They picketed outside the Science Center, making their case by chanting slogans and distributing informative literature. This "educational picket," as organizers called it, not only displayed a fundamental respect for Coors' right to speak, but also allowed the audience to ask more informed, penetrating questions...
...these strikers are still being unjustly treated and deserve more attention than just an occasional news story or editorial. A visit to these picket lines by a presidential candidate would do more than just lift morale...
...illegal drugs. Making a similar pitch in Houston, Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar screens, computers and scrambled-speech telephones, the Blue Fire command post will eventually anchor a "radar picket line" along the porous 2,000-mile. border with Mexico, the passageway for one-third of the drugs entering...
...border, the high expectations raised by Operation Alliance have been belied by the program's shaky start-up. Since the kickoff, there have been few significant increases in the number of federal agents deployed in the Southwest by the Customs Service, Drug Enforcement Agency and Border Patrol. The radar picket line is at least two years from completion, and other promised equipment has yet to be delivered. The Administration has even proposed eliminating promised federal funds for state and local police in next year's budget. "The Government isn't really serious about stopping drugs," charges a veteran Customs officer...
Despite one picket demonstration and the introduction of an outside negotiator, little progress was reached until the union's final meeting with Barnard, which ended less than two hours before the union was to strike...