Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Their protests seemed spontaneous; both the Teamsters Union and the American Trucking Association publicly disavowed them. But the drivers have their own informal communications network: the Citizen's Band radios that link them rig-to-rig as they roll along. Last week those radios crackled with calls to revolt by parking tractor-trailers across turnpikes and barricading traffic. After the first major jam was organized Monday by a driver (known to other truckers as River Rat) on a stretch of Interstate 80 near Blakeslee, Pa., the stoppages spread into Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, New York...
...ethics and standards. But the size of the minority who are incompetent, unethical or both is unknown. Too few standards of ethics or practice have been set, and that many doctors will strenuously resist any attempt to strengthen or enforce them became evident last week in an anti-standards revolt within the American Medical Association...
...problem: The students and workers occupying the Polytechnic Institute in Athens, the nerve center of the two-day old revolt in Athens and the two other major cities of Greece...
...services, scheduled for today, to mourn the death of the "13" who were killed by the police and army a month ago. However, many more than 13--probably more than 100--families are mourning for relatives killed November 17 when the dictator confronted the rebelling Greeks with tanks. The revolt is now history, but the outburst was only a warning for the future...
...reported to have been in disagreement with the course of action George Papadopoulos and prime minister Spyros Markezinis had chosen. He had wanted drastic action from the outset of the crisis. The military hierarchy of the junta in Athens had sided with Papadopoulos. The students had been in revolt for three days, the population was increasingly restless and the stability of the regime was shaken...