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Word: unionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killed in clashes with the police since the beginning of 1968. He revealed plans to go before the United Nations and charge the United States with "genocide" against the Panthers. The black Patrolmen's League joined black community leaders and politicians as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in calling for a probe to determine the facts of Hampton's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Police and Panthers at War | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...however, is extremely wary. NATO's acceptance of the invitation, said U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, would put public pressure on the member nations to attend even if there were no prospect for concrete results. "What does the Soviet Union want to achieve by proposing such a conference?" demanded Rogers. "Does it want to deal realistically with the issues that divide Europe or does it seek to ratify the existing division of Europe? Does it intend to draw a veil over the subjugation of Czechoslovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: EUROPE: A TIME OF TESTING FOR THE POWER BLOCS | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...spite of Mao's crude and often ferocious rhetoric, the Mao papers show that the Chairman can tread prudently when faced with political and military realities. Several of his speeches also suggest that Mao feels there is a vital historical and ideological bond between the Soviet Union and China, in spite of what he considers to be betrayal by Stalin and Khrushchev. "In articles and speeches, don't criticize the U.S.S.R.," he instructed the Chinese High Command in 1958. "We learn from the good people and the good things in the Soviet Union as well as from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Mao Papers: A New View of China's Chairman | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...helping to organize the dreaded Cheka (secret police); during the civil war that followed, he distinguished himself as one of the founders of the Red armed forces, and in 1925 was appointed Commissar of War. Blindly loyal to Stalin, in 1935 he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and rose to the post of assistant chairman of the party's defense committee. With Stalin's death in 1953, he became President of the U.S.S.R., a post from which he was dismissed seven years later, after opposing Khrushchev's 1957 bid for power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 12, 1969 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...painter's helpers issue, the University has gone through a baffling series of twists and turns. We have heard at various times that L.Gard Wiggins, administrative vice president of the University, could promote the helpers with one phone call; then that he could not without the consent of the Union; then that Harvard was willing to let a three-man panel from the black Contractors Association of Boston decide the helpers' case, apparently without the union; and now the administration has agreed to add three OBU representatives to that panel. The University seems to have been dodging the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Occupation | 12/9/1969 | See Source »

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