Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter expects to strike no major bargains with López Portillo. He hopes only to spur negotiations-on oil and natural gas, immigration and trade policies. Carter, says one adviser, "must restore a sense of mutual trust and cooperation. He's got to change the background music, get rid of the rancor and put the whole relationship back on a candid, open and honest basis." Even these limited goals will tax Carter's formidable skill as face-to-face negotiator and healer of hurt feelings, for the Mexicans believe, with considerable reason, that the U.S. has long...
...Resumption of negotiations on the sale of natural gas to the U.S. López Portillo has already indicated to Ambassador Lucey that he wants to strike a bargain on gas if a way can be found without inflaming his political opposition. For the moment, however, Carter is expected to propose only a gentleman's agreement that Mexico promise to begin selling gas to the U.S. when demand outstrips domestic supplies, perhaps within a decade. The price would be negotiated in the future...
McCrackin did more than refuse to show. To protest conditions in the prison, he ignored a subpoena, made a squad of five policemen carry him physically to jail, and began a hunger strike that lasted three weeks and forced his transfer to a hospital for intravenous feeding...
...cities, Khomeini supporters occupied municipal offices. Bazargan, however, made no move to seize any ministries in Tehran-not that there was much to seize. The majority of government employees had declared their rejection of Bakhtiar's regime, and even some staff members in his own office went on strike...
From then on it was garbage time. The squad travels to Southeastern Mass. this afternoon, where hopefully the garbagemen will be on strike...