Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gorodnya near Kiev on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation." The pattern of the proceedings was much the same as in the previous trials. Like Shcharansky, Alexander Ginzburg and Viktoras Petkus, Lukyanenko refused to make a public confession, despite seven months of pretrial interrogation. Instead, he went on a hunger strike when the summary four-day trial began, refused to accept a court-appointed attorney, and conducted his own defense. Paying heavily for his defiance, he was sentenced to the maximum under the law: ten years of hard labor in a concentration camp and five years of Siberian exile. Shcharansky...
...across the country, mailmen gathered in their union offices, and as the clock approached midnight the tension began to rise. Would there or would there not be a postal strike in the morning? The answer came shortly after 4 a.m. Washington, D.C., time, when Emmet Andrews, head of the American Postal Workers Union, emerged bleary-eyed from behind closed doors at the offices of the Federal Mediation Service. After a tense, all-night bargaining session that capped 17 weeks of talks between the U.S. Postal Service and its 570,000 unionized employees, agreement had been reached on a new three...
...Administration remained officially silent on the results, perhaps taking a lesson from its inept handling of last winter's coal strike, when Carter went on television to proclaim the strike settled only to have the miners reject the pact in a ratification vote. The postal contract still has to be ratified by the membership of four separate unions in votes that begin next week. Having leaned on the Postal Service to hang tough in the negotiations, the White House was not eager to be seen gloating over the result. Said one Carter adviser: "We want to do anything...
Late last night the first few copies of the Summer School's experimental newspaper, rolled off the press in the basement of the Crimson building at building at 14 Plympton St. Strike one blow for the do-it-yourselfers, and strike another for the love of free discussion, which along with a few proffered dollars convinced us at The Crimson to print a newspaper that is being billed as the Summer School's alternative to this paper. But even as the clatter of the press was subsiding at the end of the inaugural run, the sight of the newly printed...
...always been able to decide for itself exactly how to vary that mix of stories. Once upon a time--in 1969, when the tear gas was billowing and the Cambridge police were storming across the Yard--the powers-that-were tried to get the paper to alter its pro-strike editorial policy. When that attempt failed, certain alumni and faculty helped endow The Harvard Independent, the College's weekly, as a "conservative" alternative. The Independent has long since evolved into a middle-of-the-road journal, while The Crimson itself has drifted closer to the center of the political spectrum...