Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officers decided to strike first. The co-leaders of the coup were Lieut. Colonel Omar Torrijos, the Guard's executive officer, who had been ordered to leave Panama, and Major Boris Martinez, who is the commander of Chiriqui province military zone. At their bidding one evening last week, their brother officers quietly dispatched units from the 3,900-man force to shoo civilians off the streets of the country's two main cities, Panama City and Colón, seize the radio stations and close the international airport. Arias, 67, who is experienced in such matters, at once...
...NEAR STRIKE of the Buildings and Services Union at Radcliffe underlines the anachronistic inefficiency of the College residences. The strike was over as soon as it was threatened, because the residences would have been thrown into chaos without their service employees--no food, filthy johns, garbage piling up in the halls, and food deliveries rotting...
Radcliffe apparently doesn't understand that it has a labor problem on its hands that can only get worse. The near-strike of last week should show the College that it must eliminate its wasteful use of labor. One Harvard student pointed out that the girls won't be happy about having to cook for themselves. But even cooking beats not being able to afford Radcliffe...
...Nixon for President headquarters in Boston will be picketed tomorrow by protesters demonstrating against the Republican candidate's opposition to the California grape pickers' strike...
...James M. Hester, who said that Hatchett "has proved to be increasingly ineffective in performing his duties because of the incompatability of many of his actions and public statements with the requirements of the University." NYU students quickly occupied two campus buildings to protest the firing, and a student strike is now being implemented to demand Hatchett's full reinstatement...