Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is other evidence that the workers do not support Chavez. In the spring of 1970, 8000 Coachella Valley farmworkers paid for a full-page signed ad in the Riverside paper asking growers not to sign with...
...have the support of the farmworkers. The purpose, however, was to force workers into a union they didn't want to join. The strategy was to fool consumers into boycotting grapes and lettuce by misrepresenting the conditions of the farmworkers. The boycott would then force growers to sign with Chavez, and if the farmworkers wanted to work, they would have to join...
...knocked to the ground and kicked by several policemen; he was hospitalized with painful bruises about his spleen. CBS protested directly to President Thieu, noting that the attack did violence to the already fragile image of democracy hi his country. To Hillenbrand, the ugly episode was a telling sign of political jitters hi Saigon. As always, he says, "when the going gets tough for the government, the secret police begin beating on the journalists...
According to friends, Fanne formerly performed at the Silver Slipper, a sleazy Washington nightclub shoehorned between a pornographic bookstore and a pornographic theater. On the club's window are photos of scantily clad women in provocative poses and a sign promising AN EXTRAVAGANZA OF BEAUTIFUL, CURVACEOUS GIRLS. Inside, dancers shake to the heavy beat of music thundering from amplifiers and strip to their G strings, as B-girls cadge $2.75 drinks from male customers...
...grimmest sign of all, however, reported TIME'S Jerusalem correspondent Marlin Levin, is open discussion, by both military and political leaders, about the possible necessity of a preemptive strike against Arab armies. The rationale for such an attack would be to cripple Arab forces for five to ten years...