Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Risks of Revenge. In both Britain and Ulster, a wave of revulsion followed the murders. Some 3,000 Protestant and Catholic shipyard workers united to march through Belfast's streets in an expression of outrage at the crime and sympathy for the slain Scots' families. Ulster's Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark, trying to cool off Protestant hotheads bent on reprisals, warned of "the appalling consequences of murder and outrage, the risks of revenge and the chain reaction that follows...
...separate accounts, the worst killing occurred in Gdynia. Workers on their way to the shipyard were stopped by militiamen and ordered to return home. When they refused, the soldiers opened fire, killing several of the crowd. Infuriated workers draped the body of a slain youth in a Polish flag and carried it toward City Hall. There militiamen fired again. Official reports said 21 were killed, but eyewitnesses said: "They have made a mistake; they have left off the nought at the end of the figure...
...point during the riots, Gdansk shipyard workers with blazing acetylene torches in their hands chanted "Burn! Burn!" and threatened to ignite huge fuel tanks in the yards; they were dissuaded at the last minute by party officials, who promised to listen to their grievances. In Warsaw, Cracow and other major cities, workers were preparing to stage a general strike and demonstrations when the abrupt resignation of Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka persuaded them to wait and see what would happen next. In his anger, Gomulka warned other officials that unless the rioting stopped, he would call upon Soviet troops and tanks...
...more than $400 million, want to re-enter the scene at General Dynamics? Last year profits tumbled from a 1966 peak of $54 million to $2,530,000, only one-tenth of 1% of the company's $2.5 billion sales. G.D. has been plagued by losses in its shipyard division, a microfilm products subsidiary, and the controversial F-111 fighter-bomber...
...court reversed the conviction of Ronald Patillo, a security guard at the Norfolk naval shipyard. Craven agreed that Patillo had uttered a true threat. However, said the judge, the element of "willfulness" was lacking. According to another guard, Patillo had said: "I'm going to kill President Nixon, and I'm going to Washington to do it." Nonetheless, Craven termed the conviction a danger to First Amendment rights. "Americans nurtured upon the concept of free speech," he said, "are not accustomed to controlling their tongues to avoid criminal indictment." Craven noted that the court might take a different...