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...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...
Litton has been fighting for that contract for three long years. The company first persuaded the Mississippi legislature to vote a controversial $130 million tax-exempt bond issue to build the most modern shipyard in the country. Litton then contracted to lease the facility from the state for 30 years, paying enough to retire the bonds. The yard uses speedy, cost-cutting "modular" techniques developed by the Japanese; sections of ships are built separately, swung into place and welded together. Litton's hopes for defense work were hardly dampened by the fact that Mississippi's Senator John Stennis...
Rhode Island where his Father works in a shipyard, it was a conscious choice; maybe an adventure in the old romantic sense. But the choice part is gone now, and Roger's marginality is more or less permanent. Even if he wanted to work-to return to the mental place where people get up at 7:30 and go off and do things all day and eat well and have "homes" and other attachments-he probably could not do it. Too much water over the dam. Too many ways of being that he has lost, and cannot understand...