Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About the only thing in strike-bound Paris that seemed to be moving slower than the traffic last week was the peace parley on Viet Nam. U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators held a single 2-hr. 57-min. session at the Hotel Majestic, then adjourned for four days. Hanoi was clearly bent on emulating the tactics of Fabius Cunctator (the delayer),* the Roman general who wore down the more powerful Hannibal by his endless harassing tactics. The long break was occasioned in part, a Hanoi spokesman explained, by the fact that Ascension Day was approaching, "and since we translate...
Everywhere, France writhed in revolt and dishevelment. Half of the nation's 16 million workers were on strike, and most of the rest were idled by a massive transportation shutdown. The country's students barricaded themselves in their universities. Farmers defiantly parked their tractors across the nation's highways. Protesters surged through Paris streets by the thousands each night, battling police and riot troopers. With startling suddenness, the serenity of Gaullist France had been swept away in what the French are already calling "the Davs...
...Strike Committee denied Friday having anything to do with the two fires. They alleged the fire in Hamilton Hall broke out 35 minutes after police took the building and arrested the students inside. Police still held it when the fire began...
Friday the Strike Committee proposed that arrested students refuse to talk to the deans about their actions. The college has suspended between ten and twenty students for refusing to come in. On Friday, however, they postponed indefinitely the May 24th deadline which required that 33 seniors talk to the deans...
Today the Strike Committee will meet with the deans to discuss a compromise. If neither side gives in, 300-500 students could be suspended...