Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strike at the Factory...
...political implications. Law and order became an issue last year primarily because of ubiquitous street violence, whether perpetrated by the lone mugger or the faceless mob. The President's recommendations last week aimed at the well-nigh invisible activities of organized crime (see LAW). Attacks by multi-agency "strike forces" will be expanded. New legal tools are sought to get at both gangsters and their political accomplices. While almost any antiriot measure can be construed as anti-Negro, everyone is happy to belabor the Mafia. Nixon's $61 million crime program-which will be followed by messages...
...those against Safeguard countered that in seven years, by the time it is fully developed, the system may well be obsolete. Moreover, it can never be tested because of the 1963 Test Ban Treaty. They argued further that if Russia ever launched a massive saturation strike on U.S. second-strike missile sites, the proposed Safeguard system would be capable of stopping only an insignificant number of incoming ICBMs...
...bureaucracy of the universities. The revolt gained ominous momentum when the labor unions, restive at static wages and rising prices, joined the students. It seemed, during those weeks of the barricades, that De Gaulle might be deposed while absent from the country. In settling the insurrection and the general strike, the government had to accept sizable wage increases; all of this had caused panic among the middle classes, and francs were speedily converted to gold or other currencies-most often West German marks. The fabled gold reserves were depleted in defending the franc...
...first week of the strike, Calkins talked about dissent and ROTC and all the other issues for two straight nights on television. He ate breakfast with students in the Houses and told them about ROTC. When he saw posters in the Yard giving some students' version of what he said, Calkins trotted over to the CRIMSOM to type out a reply and explain why the poster version was a distortion...