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...side stood 3,300 police, armed with truncheons and riot shields. On the other was a crowd of about 6,500 striking coal miners and their supporters, attempting to blockade the Orgreave coking works near Sheffield. Among the demonstrators was Arthur Scargill, the combative president of the National Union of Mineworkers, nursing a head injury. "All I know," said Scargill, "is that these bastards rushed in and this guy hit the back of my head with a riot shield." Not so, countered South Yorkshire Assistant Chief Constable Tony Clement, who said that Scargill had fallen down a grassy slope...
...team of 14 workers each week sends out 2,000 letters to delegates and makes 1,000 phone calls, rounding up new pledges and fencing in old ones. As Mondale waded about soggy New Jersey, his campaign won the backing of two Governors (Mark White of Texas and William Sheffield of Alaska), nine uncommitted delegates in Mississippi and six in Hawaii. Mondale's aides predict he will have 1,750 of the 1,967 delegates needed to nominate before the voters go to the polls on Tuesday...
...first convoy of 35 trucks rumbled out of the plant gates last Tuesday morning carrying low-sulfur coal from the Orgreave coking works, near Sheffield, to a steel mill at Scunthorpe, 40 miles away. With that, Britain's angry, three-month-old miners' strike flared into open war. As the vehicles ran the gauntlet between Orgreave and Scunthorpe, 7,000 picketing miners pelted them with rocks, smoke bombs, ball bearings and nail-studded potatoes. Two thousand policemen charged repeatedly into the crowd on foot and on horseback. By the end of the day, 81 strikers had been arrested...
...submarine H.M.S. Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano; at least 300 men were lost in a crew of some 1,000. Two days later, an Argentine Exocet missile struck the British destroyer Sheffield, which was abandoned with the loss of 20 men. British troops stormed the Falklands on May 21, and the badly overmatched Argentine force surrendered 3½ weeks later...
...bankruptcy ploy on individual plants. When Ford Motor Co failed to extract concessions from the U.A.W. at its unprofitable Rouge steelmaking operations, it announced plans to curtail production sharply. Four days later, the union accepted concessions, and the mill was kept open. When U.A.W. workers at Ford's Sheffield, Ala., aluminum-casting plant did not accept 50% wage and benefit cuts or the company's offer to sell them the plant, it was closed last June...