Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Black Business School students strike to protest racism...
...then, the University had been through the mobbing of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, the Dow Chemical sit-in, the Paine Hall protest, the University Hall occupation, the Bust, the Strike and a score or more of other incidents...
...Bust had succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of SDS. It seemed like everyone in Cambridge was shouting "strike, strike" until they were hoarse. It felt like the dawn of our own French Revolution...
...with so many U.N. peacekeepers held hostage -- in some cases chained by the Serbs to ammunition dumps or near other potential bombing targets -- the French willingness to strike back did not translate into rhetorical resolve on the part of the allies. Top U.N. officials, backed by the Russians, argued against further confrontation. Meanwhile, the British, the Germans and the Americans continued searching for a way to avoid both a full-scale continuance of the air campaign and the humiliation of yet another backdown...
...then -- the moment of truth. In the past, when the Serbs have responded to a NATO air strike by shelling civilians and taking hostages, NATO has made threats but backed down. This time, would the strikes continue, hostages or no? Following the Serbian bridge attack and French counterattack, there were hints of more bombing, notably from U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, who cut short a visit to Italy to meet with his British and German counterparts at London's Gatwick airport on Saturday. At a news conference, Perry declared that the credibility of the international community was at stake...