Word: strikeingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Further, mutual deterrence would be put in question. Since MIRV would multiply many times the number of warheads either side could deliver against the other, a thin ABM system like Safeguard would not be sufficient to preserve enough of the defender's missiles to allow him to strike back effectively after a massive surprise attack. Thus, the temptation to deliver a pre-emptive strike in an acute crisis like the Cuban missile confrontation would increase. This new step-up in the arms race,* coupled with the Safeguard ABM, would cost the U.S. at least $20 billion and could lead...
Nearly four years ago, Cesar Chavez called la huelga-the strike-against many of California's growers of table grapes, seeking to gain for farm laborers the same rights of union recognition and collective bargaining that industrial workers have long enjoyed. Success at first was minimal. Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee won few contracts with table-grape growers; three of them have subsequently sold out their table-grape vineyards. In 1968, the union called for a nationwide boycott of California grapes, deepening the hostility between union and growers into seemingly hopeless stalemate...
From the beginning, the issues in the Charleston, S.C., hospital strike have been union recognition and official intransigence. For three months the walkout by 360 black workers-most of them women of limited skills earning only $1.30 to $1.60 per hour-has disrupted the gracious antebellum city with the threat of racial violence...
Heavy Sentence. Negotiations finally began four weeks ago, but were kept secret, presumably to save face for the hospital management. Governor Robert Mc-Nair, for whom the strike was becoming a political embarrassment, pushed for a settlement. Incentive came from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which threatened to cut off federal financial assistance to the hospitals if they declined to rehire twelve union members who had been fired. This threat was too much even for Dr. William McCord, president of Medical College Complex and a firm opponent of union recognition...
...week's end, the strikers were gearing for a bitter struggle. They vowed to make night marches through white neighborhoods all summer. The International Longshoremen's Association privately told McNair that it would close down the busy port of Charleston if the strike is not settled promptly...