Word: port
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...York longshoremen responded to the strike call, and by week's end they had been joined by 35,000 other I.L.A. members from Portland. Me. to Brownsville, Texas. For the first time in the I.L.A.'s checkered history it had effectively paralyzed every major port along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (and there was the possibility that the strike might spread to the West Coast, where members of Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union tied up a dozen ships as a gesture of "sympathy...
...federal mediators hurried I.L.A. and N.Y.S.A. representatives into further bargaining sessions. Agreement had already been reached on some sticking points (welfare benefits, dues checkoff), and others seemed negotiable (wages, work-gang size). The big obstacle: I.L.A.'s demand that the present system of "pattern" bargaining-i.e., each port negotiates separate agreements with the I.L.A., using the New York contract as a guide-be replaced by a master contract allowing the union to negotiate major issues on a coastwide basis. When the N.Y.S.A. turned down this point on the ground that it could only negotiate for shippers...
...give in too much to Nasser was to ire the British and French, who are unhappily halted in a narrow peninsula at Port Said and along a soo-yard strip running halfway down the canal. Despite the fact that the U.N. cease-fire resolution called for the immediate departure of all foreign troops from Egyptian soil, the British insist that they cannot remove their forces until there is either: 1) a general settlement of Middle Eastern problems, including airtight protection against Egyptian interference with Suez traffic, or 2) an "adequate" (i.e., division-size) U.N. force based in the Canal Zone...
...Cyprus the British issued two casualty lists. The first showed a total of 32 British and French officers and men killed -in the Port Said fighting. The second listed 32 Britons and Cypriots killed in the same period-on Cyprus. Never since the terrorist EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground, started its campaign of violence 18 months ago had so much blood been shed in so short a time...
...time most correspondents got to Port Said last fortnight, the fighting was virtually over-and Paris-Match Photographer-Reporter Jean Roy, 34, had the situation well in hand. The big (6 ft., 190 Ibs.), handsome Frenchman (real name: Yves Leleu) was living up to his legend as the fire-eating knight-errant of war journalism. In the 24 hours since he had landed with the first French ground troops, Roy had taken over two jeeps and a Chevrolet truck, daubed each with a new license plate, "Balzac 00-24" (the phone number of Paris-Match), and whirled through a typical...