Word: strikes
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...particpated in the building occupation and strike to demand the removal of ROTC training from Harvard, and end to Harvard's eviction of low-income tenants and demolition of affordable housing in Cambridge and the establishment of an Afro-American studies department. We believe these demands to have been justified, and the actions we took to have been necessitated by the intransigence of the Harvard administration in refusing to respond to student and faculty concerns...
...protest coincided with a rally marking the 20th anniversary of the 1969 takeover of University Hall and the subsequent student strike...
...20th anniversary of the 1969 Harvard student strike occurred yesterday, it is more than slightly ironic that a full batallion meeting of the ROTC took place on campus this semester for the first time since those turbulent days two decades past...
...week before our arrival in Tambov, the drivers on two trolleybus lines had gone on strike, protesting the dreadful condition of the roads Tambovskaya Pravda, the local Communist Party daily, devoted the front page to a regional party committee meeting, examining the fate of those repressed under Stalin Elections had been held for a new factory director In the town of Michurinsk, 40 miles to the northwest, an ecology rally had been organized, drawing more than 1,000 people...
Michael Fay, head of the New Zealand team, decided to strike back. Citing a provision in the deed of gift, which sets out guidelines for the competition, he challenged the U.S. to a one-on-one rematch. San Diego had not planned on a defense until 1991. But Justice Carmen Ciparick of the New York Supreme Court, which oversees the deed, upheld New Zealand's rogue challenge...