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...history of this movement--as in Fighting for Our Lives,--a special place is reserved for the scabs, workers hired by the owners to break and to dismantle the strikers. Scabs are, of course, both villians and victims--they are tricked and used by the growers to take jobs away from other workers--but there is a special sense of betrayal when a scab like the six-foot, four-inch, 300-Ib Mike Falco assaults a 65-year-old striker...
...have altered the U.N.'s size and character. Founded in 1945 with 51 charter nations, the U.N. now has 138 member countries. The advent of so many fledgling Third World nations has caused a kind of transmogrification of the U.N., which now seems bent, as U.S. Ambassador John Scab' said last week, on establishing a new "tyranny of the majority...
Peter Ferrara has the distinction of being the first Crimson contributor whose work ("Is Chavez Fooling Harvard,"Crimson, Oct. 21) is hanging in the Chelsea market. By the time he gets his grapeskin he may make the Fulton market: if he had his way, there's still be scab products around a couple of years from...
What a loss to everyone that Ferrara was too young to be in college during the Farah strike: the strikers would have found out how soft they were living; the world could have blissfully worn its (then) scab pants; and the Crimson could have gotten all that income from scab advertising...
...named Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party in 1943. Liu was considered to be Mao's heir apparent, but his identification with bureaucratic-technocratic policies made him the chief target of the zealous Red Guard levelers of the Cultural Revolution. Denounced as "a renegade, traitor, scab and agent of imperialism," Liu was stripped of party and governmental posts in 1968 and reportedly spent his last years as a laborer on a communal farm...