Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even a peaceful labor settlement would be no guarantee against trouble. The union is ripe for rebellion. Admirers of Joseph Yablonski, the assassinated U.M.W. official who lost a presidential race to Boyle in 1969, have maintained their dissident organization called Miners for Democracy. The Labor Department is now in court seeking to force a rerun of the 1969 election on grounds that it was conducted illegally. Boyle is under indictment by the Justice Department, charged with illegally using union funds for political contributions. To add to Boyle's problems, another bloc called the Black Lung Association has threatened wildcat...
Many of the demands that emerged in the Attica rebellion were first raised in July in a tough "manifesto" sent to Oswald and Rockefeller by a group of inmates called "the Attica Liberation Faction." The paper labeled Attica a "classic institution of authoritative inhumanity upon men," but added: "We are trying to do this in a democratic fashion. We feel there is no need to dramatize our demands...
...Oswald's moves. Rocky remained in Washington for the first two days of the rebellion, then spent the weekend at his Pocantico Hills estate north of New York City. He kept in touch, but played...
...fall of 1970, Blyden was transferred from Attica to the Tombs, Manhattan's Men's House of Detention, to await a hearing on one of his appeals. In October, the Tombs exploded into a riot; Blyden was indicted as one of the leaders of the rebellion and was returned to Attica after the revolt collapsed...
More Time. Toms, smoldering at the rebellion, points out that "the air bags are two or three times better than anything else." Adds a high Transportation Department official: "The industry can meet the 1974 model deadline if it really wants to. Money really seems to be the problem." The bags will add an estimated $150 to the price...