Word: skirmisher
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...incident was the latest skirmish in a long war. Maier was unhappy with local coverage of the 1967 Milwaukee riots and the sympathetic press given Father James Groppi, who led street demonstrations in favor of an open-housing law. The mayor rarely misses an opportunity to belabor the Journal Co.'s monopoly, and he once tried to instigate a federal antitrust suit against the company...
Someone familiar enough with IWW history to follow the film's meanderings also knows how mutilated this version of that era is. The free-speech battle in San Diego becomes a minor skirmish. A group called the Over-alls Brigade pops in two years early for no discernable reason. By weaving Joe's first love back into the film, Widerberg states as fact the unconfirmable alibi Hill gave at the murder trial. And because the scenes of labor upheaval lack conviction, the trial fails to gain credibility as a politically repressive...
...Meany and close ranks behind him. There are already signs of just that. Says David Crippen, a member of the Social Services Employees of Los Angeles: "For what must be the first time in its history, this local is supporting Meany." The Battle of Bal Harbour was an opening skirmish in what promises to be a long, bitter political campaign...
...announcement over Radio Pakistan. India, it said, "has launched an all-out offensive against East Pakistan without a formal declaration of war." That charge proved to be false; it was not a full-fledged war ?yet. On the other hand, it was certainly not a trifling skirmish, as Indian spokesmen at first euphemistically described...
...spared such incidents since last November, both the target and the timing were significant. Petah-Tikva (Gate of Hope), settled by Russian immigrants in 1878, was the first Jewish agricultural settlement in modern Palestine. The rocketing, along with guerrilla forays elsewhere-a bazooka barrage on the Lebanese border, a skirmish on the Golan Heights, a grenade explosion in Ashkelon-coincided with a meeting in Cairo of the 155-member guerrilla high command, the Palestine National Council. It also occurred during the four-day visit of West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, who conferred with Israeli officials and visited...