Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room of a Beijing hotel, which was aired with a voice-over implying that the students at the table had been feasting when they were supposed to be fasting. Decipherable dates on the clip showed, however, that the dinner actually took place more than a week after their hunger strike ended. But the Chinese got the point: nothing is secret...
After smoldering in the coal fields of Virginia and West Virginia for two months, a strike by 1,500 miners against the Pittston Coal company flared last week into a fast-spreading wildcat walkout. More than 20,000 union miners struck in sympathy with the Pittston workers, shutting down mines in six states from Pennsylvania to Tennessee...
...months of multibillion-dollar broadsides, legal pyrotechnics and dangerously unpredictable consequences. The Paramount bid came just 2 1/2 weeks before shareholders of Time and Warner Communications were to vote on merging their firms into the world's largest media company, with total revenues of $10 billion. But the sudden strike by Paramount, whose operations include one of Hollywood's top movie-and-TV studios and the giant publishing house Simon & Schuster, disrupted those plans and threatened to provoke a free-for-all in which the ownership of all three communications giants could be up for grabs...
...York City about 30 people have engaged in a symbolic hunger strike across the street from the United Nations. They were demanding U.N. condemnation of the crackdown in Beijing and the dispatch of medical workers and human-rights observers to China. Though many of the students in the U.S. are children of Communist Party members, and some are members themselves, the army's brutality has soured them on the party's monopolistic rule. "The only way to save the country is to go to a multiparty system," says John Shao, a student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University...
Khomeini's long rise to power began with a series of confrontations with the regime of the Shah. In 1962 he led a general strike of the clergy to protest reforms allowing witnesses in court to swear by any "divine book," instead of the Koran alone. By the spring of 1963 he was under house arrest for telling huge crowds at Qum that just a "flick of the finger" could sweep away the Shah. Soon after his release a few months later, Khomeini was arrested again, this time for fomenting riots against a modernization program that included land reform...