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...standards, this pair should be politically extinct--confined to the junkheap of rusted-out racists like George Wallace and Lester Maddox. It was Thurmond, after all, who led the Dixiecrat walkout at the 1948 Democratic convention over Harry Truman's modest civil rights proposals and soon earned a reputation as the Senate's foremost segregationist. Television commentator Helms used race to boost him to the Senate...
University of Massachusetts faculty and administrators agreed Friday evening to select an outside mediator following a two-day walkout at its Columbia Point and Arlington campuses that halted classes Wednesday and Thursday...
...walkout by the 235,000-member Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks (B.R.A.C.) stemmed from a dispute by just one local against just one line, the Virginia-based Norfolk & Western Railway, which has been struck by the clerks for more than two months. But other B.R.A.C. locals, raising picket signs in sympathy, tied up operations at 74 lines in 42 states, idling up to 350,000 of the nation's half a million rail workers, stranding thousands of commuters and millions of tons of freight. President Carter stepped in after three days of chaos. Acting under the emergency provisions...
Finally, acting on a request from the Justice Department, the court at week's end issued an order restraining the union from striking for ten days and barring the roads from taking retaliatory action against any participants in the walkout. At the end of ten days both sides will again appear before the court to discuss a preliminary injunction that would forbid the union from striking for the remainder of the 60-day cooling-off time. Citing "a victory against tremendous odds," Kroll jubilantly called off the B.R.A.C. pickets; trains across the country began to move again...
...settlement within 30 days. After that the Government will seek to prod both sides into an accord. If at the end of 60 days no agreement is reached, the union would be free to resume its strike. Under such circumstances, past Presidents have sought emergency legislation to avert another walkout. In 1971, for example, Congress imposed a settlement after a strike by railroad signalmen...