Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wildcat strike, a revolt against badly bollixed grievance procedures, spread swiftly. Within 16 days almost all 50,000 soft-coal miners in West Virginia walked off the job. The mine owners went to court, and Federal Judge Kenneth K. Hall slapped the United Mine Workers with a gigantic $500,000 fine, plus $100,000 a day for as long as the strike lasted. Last week, seven working days and $1.2 million later, most of the wildcatters went back to work...
...following day, he appeared before a grand jury near Attica, N.Y., to explain his actions during the 1971 prison revolt that ended in the deaths of 39 prisoners and hostages. Greeted by a group of protesters who blamed him for the bloodshed, Rocky spent two hours and 45 minutes testifying...
...revolt against the whole system and new cries for reform are spreading, prompted largely by the lingering effects of a recession that swelled not only the numbers on welfare but also the costs of assisting them. President Ford, for one, has said that the whole welfare program "either ought to be junked or a substitute put in its place, or the present welfare system should be tightened up very, very greatly." Jimmy Carter, former Governor of Georgia and now a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, agrees that "nobody on the face of the earth can make the present welfare...
...revolt is aimed mainly at the bureaucratic confusion. At the beginning of last year, the Federal Government undertook what looked like a more efficient way of speeding help to needy aged, blind and disabled people. Any state wishing to take part in the new program, called SSI (Supplemental Security Income), could let Washington's Social Security computers figure the benefits and mail out the checks to each recipient. The states would then be billed for their share of the welfare costs by the Social Security Administration. Thirty-two states took advantage of the arrangement, since it seemed to remove...
...statue will be displayed in Israel's capital. "There was no way that statue wasn't going to Jerusalem," said Leventhal. In the 2nd century, the Jews who lived there "would have given anything to get their hands on Hadrian," who crushed the revolt led by Patriot Bar Kokhba and savagely persecuted the Jews. Now that contemporary Israelis have him, they are not about to let Hadrian go. As consolation for not letting Leventhal keep his find, Israeli archaeologists have promised him some ancient Jewish coins for his collection...