Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know if the threat is real or not," Raymond said. "The governor would like to make sure that the last plants stay in the state. However, he wants decent working condition for the workers...
Tensions between blacks and whites have grown as a result of a threat by Smith to "rethink" the March agreement, under which white voters are supposed to ratify by Oct. 20 a new constitution leading to black power. If that is approved, whites and blacks are scheduled to vote for a new government in early December...
...must be left-wing radicals, probably from the universities. The investigation serves as an awakening and education for Rogas in the reality of power politics. Initially annoyed by the labor unions who seem to paralyze society with their incessant strikes, he gradually becomes aware of a far more serious threat to the nation as he begins to uncover a diabolical counter-revolutionary plot being planned and executed by the very leaders of the military-industrial-political complex. The final turning point occurs when he discovers that his own telephone is being tapped by those who fear he knows too much...
When Whitney and Piper return as planned within the next month, they may be subjected to Soviet harassment. Whether Moscow takes further action may depend on what Washington does. By way of not-so-veiled threat, the State Department summoned a Soviet diplomat to "discuss" the status of the San Francisco bureau of the Soviet press agency, Tass. But the Administration had not decided whether to make any retaliatory gestures beyond the moves that President Carter had made after Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky's conviction: he canceled the sale of a Sperry Univac computer to Tass and placed all American...
...pickings were slim; the Browns had made a deal, estimated at $565,000, that allowed only reporters from the London Daily Mail to have access to the Brown family. Doctors and hospital personnel were also exasperatingly inaccessible. Frustration ran high, and after a bomb threat was called in to the hospital, there were rumors that it had been made by a reporter or photographer who, as a last resort, planned to intercept Lesley Brown as she was being evacuated from the building. (She was indeed moved, but only to a different part of the hospital.) Snarled a hospital guard...