Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike-ridden Italy, everyone, it seems, has something to protest. Last week it was the magicians. A score showed up for a demonstration in front of Rome's crowded Chamber of Deputies building, having abundantly proved their powers by finding parking space nearby (180 others scheduled to attend failed that elementary test). The petition they presented to Premier Mariano Rumor requested that one thing which magicians admittedly cannot grant themselves: professional status and the government-paid pensions that it brings...
Last week a one-day general strike -the fourth in a month - paralyzed all of Pakistan's major cities. Demonstrators stopped trains, stoned cars and put two government newspapers to the torch...
...charges of inciting to riot and endangering the national security. The President's second step was his promise that the emergency regulations would be canceled this week. Despite the fact that he had been freed, Bhutto greeted that announcement with skepticism. He had just begun a protest hunger strike, and he vowed that he would continue his fast until the regulations were indeed withdrawn...
...Berkeley, members of the Third World Liberation Front, which is composed of blacks, Mexican Americans, Chinese Americans and other racial minorities, extended their strike for an autonomous college of ethnic studies into a third week. Though the university has not been seriously disrupted by the strikers so far, the daily campus demonstrations mounted to new violence last week as police battled students near Sather Gate. Thirty-five people were arrested on charges of obstructing a public thoroughfare, bringing the total number of arrests made during the strike to 75. With T.W.L.F. leaders committed to accepting no compromise, no immediate...
...Angeles Kings' Wayne Rutledge says that "the big curve should be outlawed, and goalies should go on strike to see that it's done." In lieu of that, Chicago's Dave Dryden feels that at the very least goalies should be equipped with their own curved sticks. "That way," he says ruefully, "we can fire the puck back at them...