Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather than to the candidate himself, the donors did not violate the Hatch Act provision prohibiting direct political contributions. Nonetheless, as the Washington Post argued, "The giving of campaign contributions under such circumstances is not far removed from a genteel bribe. And the taking of them is bound to strike some people, starting with us, as something very like a political shakedown." Rooney sailed off to Japan for one of his regular inspections. In Tokyo he will confer with Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson and look for luxuries lurking in embassy operations...
...intelligence, warns that "subversion may become a feature of our lives for a length of time that no one can foresee. It might become like the toll of traffic accidents modern societies have to pay." Over the long run, there is perhaps a danger that the fedayeen campaign may strike severe blows at Israeli democracy, as ever more repressive measures are required to hold down terrorism...
...rest of the networks had to fight logistics in Chicago that were just as trying as the run-ins with over-zealous patrolmen. A telephone strike, which many media people claimed was sustained to hamper news coverage of the convention, had crippled communications around the city. One vital consequence was that there could be no live coverage of events outside the convention itself. Everything NBC aired had to be video-taped and rushed back to tre network control booth in the amphitheatre...
Activists at San Francisco State College, on strike since November 6, attacked two college buildings yesterday, shattering windows and what was left of glass doors broken in battles last week...
...lunch-time rally in support of the strikers' demands for a student-controlled Black Studies Department, the reinstatement of George Murray as a part-time instructor, and admission of all non-white applicants, drew a crowd of 300 strike supporters and 1000 others...