Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have deployed some 500 S59 missiles, which-only if the U.S. takes no countermeasures-would enable the U.S.S.R. to knock out substantial numbers of U.S. ICBMs. Last December, however, a top Pentagon official said that the S59 was merely a retaliatory weapon, and was not designed for a first strike against the U.S. There has been no new intelligence since then. The Soviets had installed nearly 200 SS-9s by last summer; and they have now added roughly...
Fifteen members of Cambridge's Peace and Freedom Party and SDS picketed Touraine's Harvard Square store Tuesday and Wednesday in support of a strike against the Outlet Company of Providence, Touraine's owner. Not Touraine employees jointed the pickets...
...protestors handed out leaflets outside Touraine that asked prospective customers to boycott the store. The leaflets accused the Outlet Company of underpaying its employees and using terrorism to break the strike in Providence...
...would, of course, be glib and ridiculously optimistic to say that all of S.F. State's problems have vanished. The truce ignored many basic tensions and devised makeshift solutions for others. Hayakawa still has to decide whether the strike leaders "deserve" amnesty. And the leaders themselves say that the administration has violated agreements before. The Black Students Union still demands that S.F. State rehire Nathan Hare and George Murray--the two Black Panthers whose firings triggered the strike last fall--while Hayakawa still refuses to bring them back...
...despite the snarl of potential troubles, it seems certain that no one at S.F. State wants another strike. There may be mini-confrontations over amnesty, Hare, and Murray, but neither Hayakawa nor the students is willing to take the kind of hard line that will embroil that campus in another six months of horror. And President Nixon's relatively light-handed statement on student protests last week showed Hayakawa that the rest of the country isn't ready for the crackdown either--at least not as a result of S.F. State's example...