Word: picketers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soldiers and thousands of plainclothes thugs who serve as the Haitian military's henchmen are only too pleased by the publicity surrounding this jerry-can stampede. The attention provides an effective smoke screen for those who are really keeping the military alive: the larger vessels that audaciously evade U.N. picket boats. The U.S., Canada and Argentina have stationed warships offshore, but are unable to maneuver in shallow waters. That leaves the jagged shoreline to "coast huggers," wildcat fuel runners who use the cover of darkness to spirit drums of gas and diesel into Haiti's biggest harbors...
Scores of Stanford University students put down their books Wednesday and picked up picket signs to protest what they said was mistreatment of Mexican-American minority students and faculty...
...club goes to court in an attempt to make workers on the picket line more civil, union officials charge that club members have resorted to strong-arm tactics--even dumping water on strikers from an upstairs window...
...used no sound amplification devices, nowhistling. It's lies. It's nonsense," Turchianosays. "Besides, are picket lines supposed to bequiet...
Says Turchiano: "The club wants the picket lineeliminated because people who talk to the workerslay off and don't go in the club because peoplehave consciences...