Word: strikes
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Washington's only Super Bowl victory came against the Miami Dolphins five years ago, the season of the last National Football League strike, when the Redskins had one of the few shops without a strikebreaker. This time, during the three weeks of "replacement" games last October, Washington was the only team that stayed out en masse. Something must be said for solidarity. Meanwhile, the few Denver players who crossed the line, Receiver Steve Watson among them, seemed invariably to get injured. Picketing outside the stadium, Bronco Linebacker Karl Mecklenburg did some temporary damage to his image, retrieving and tearing...
...sagas of well-traveled scabs (some of whom will have either $18,000 or $9,000 coming from the Super Bowl), the most compelling path was taken by David Jones, a center. He began in Denver and ended up in Washington. After helping the Broncos win two of three strike games, Jones hired on with the Redskins simply as a snapper for punts and place-kicks. Knocked unconscious in the Vikings game, he was advised by doctors that another blow to his vertebrae might paralyze him. "I think someone's trying to tell me something," he said. "I'm done...
...territories, but even Rabin called it a "forced calm" likely to be shattered as soon as the Arab population was allowed back on the streets. Some curfew restrictions were lifted after complaints of food shortages. Israeli officials insisted that any shortages were self-imposed, the result of a commercial strike that has shuttered most Arab shops in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank for more than two weeks...
...streets of the Gaza Strip seethed and a general strike paralyzed commerce throughout the territories, the Israeli government sent in more troops, arrested more Palestinians, and cracked down on the violence harder than ever. "We must get a political solution by political means and not as a result of terror," said Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who is in charge of the occupied territories. "Arab terror will be confronted by the power of the Israel Defense Forces...
Just a few years ago, no one believed that AIDS, which seemed to strike mainly male homosexuals and intravenous drug users, could also attack children. Since 1981, however, doctors have reported more than 750 such cases. Now the news is even grimmer. Health officials last week announced the results of a study that showed an astonishing one out of every 61 infants born in New York City harbors antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS. Says State Health Commissioner David Axelrod: "What is alarming is that this is a higher level of infection than we had considered...