Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrators trudged around the outside of the nearly-completed facility in the pouring rain, looking for places to climb the fence. They spread blankets across the barbed wire on the top of the fences, and then jumped into the arms of police who hustled them away to waiting schoolbuses...
...masse in protest, forcing Nazih abjectly to ask everyone back. The refinery simply could not run without them. The workers then immediately voted to strike, but agreed to put off a walkout pending further talks with Nazih or his representatives. If a strike hits Abadan, the walkout would certainly spread to other fields...
...soon as the meeting ended, Brown seized the initiative. He told reporters that he had warned Carter that the scarcity of gas in California might cause an economic disaster, which could spread quickly and tip the nation into recession. The Governor suggested that Carter had "responded" by promising that California would get more gasoline. Said Brown: "May will be the worst; in June things will improve." Brown could not resist one extra dig at Carter: "Many people actually thought that the President was punishing California because of me. I don't believe that." Then he turned over the microphone...
...Starting two years ago, Carter's charges of "kickbacks" and "rip-offs of the American people" spread alarm far beyond the targeted oil companies. Says Irving Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont: "I regret that the President seems to have been taken in by the argument that the oil industry should be made a public villain. I have to speculate that [Media Adviser] Gerald Rafshoon told him there are votes in doing...
Revolutionary Iran continued to be racked by vengeance and division last week. The wave of summary trials and executions spread to include two businessmen who had held no official positions in the Shah's regime. At the same time, the conflict between the ruling Islamic conservatives and the angry left grew wider, as government and religious leaders blamed the Communists for the assassination on May 1 of Morteza Motahari, a prominent Ayatullah and a member of the Revolutionary Council...