Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought up by van [750 miles from the prison in Port Elizabeth to Pretoria]. He got into the van himself and was made comfortable. He was ill at various stages, but that was after [we had requested] medical advice as to whether he could travel and they said he could. [In Pretoria], he was put in a prison cell because that was the warrant and they immediately tried to get hold of a doctor. But the soonest they could reach him was early afternoon, so Biko was left [in prison] and treated there; that evening he died. I have never...
...machine tools and consumer products. Now shippers have devised ways to move everything from coffee beans to bulk chemicals in the cavernous boxes. These days container cargoes often include frozen food, fruit, yachts, trucks and even copies of Playboy magazine, which are thereby protected from pilfering deckhands. The Port of New York, which has the most elaborate container ship facilities anywhere, is ringed by sprawling concrete flatlands spiked with 135-ft.-tall cranes that hoist the 20-to 40-ft.-long containers onto and off ships. As late as 1970, Boston had no facilities for handling container ships; today...
...wage clause that has been part of I.L.A. contracts since 1964. The clause provides that union members receive a minimum yearly salary whether or not there is work for them, and the I.L.A. agreed in return to put a freeze on additions to its union rolls. Locals in each port negotiate the size of the guarantee. The money comes from a tonnage charge levied by port employer associations on all cargo that crosses the docks. In the Port of New York, through which about a third of all U.S. container traffic passes, longshoremen are guaranteed pay for 2,080 hours...
...I.L.A. is now demanding that all port guarantees be brought closer to the New York level. Though New York employers naturally do not object, those in the other ports do, and as a result, the industry has been unable to agree on a common response. In New York, the lowliest longshoreman "earns" a minimum of $16,640 a year yet can often wind up doing no work for weeks at a time, though when he does work the job is a grueling grind. At the top, 354 New York longshoremen make $40,000 to $56,000 a year. Because...
...Episcopal Church, which remained unified while other American denominations were sundered over the slavery issue, is now dividing over women priests. Some of the dissidents are leaving to form a new church; more are staying to fight from within. Last week at a resort in Port Saint Lucie, Fla., 125 members of the church's House of Bishops met and struggled to prevent further damage...