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...from strikers describing the disturbances reached the West. Some 35,000 miners from the Jiul River basin, which provides 70% of the country's coal supply, went on strike in early August to protest food shortages, unpaid overtime work and a reduction of pension and sickness benefits. The walkout was by far the largest in Rumania since the Communist takeover...
...Coal walkout would hurt miners most
After one day of talks, Robert Fabre, head of the Left Radical Movement, staged a dramatic walkout in protest against Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais's demand for sweeping changes in the program. As Marchais stepped up before the TV cameras outside the conference hall, Fabre shoved him aside and declared that "the French people are not prepared to sacrifice free enterprise and individual initiative to the extent the Communists would like." Marchais proposed that the Communists and Socialists continue the talks without Radical participation. The Socialists declined, and the summit was suspended...
Though the U.N. conference featured an Arab-led walkout during the Israeli delegate's Negev report and other outbursts of rudeness and rancor, the Nairobi proceedings made some encouraging progress. Scientists presented many carefully prepared technical analyses of desertification and ways to combat it. The U.S. pitched in with an offer to train a cadre of 1,000 Peace Corps volunteers for antidesertification work. Before the delegates disband this week, they are expected to adopt a 15-point plan that calls for a worldwide effort against the deserts' encroachment with everything from the planting of new vegetation...
...back to the days when strikes or threats of strikes led stockpiling steel users to step up their purchases of foreign metal. But, says one steel executive, if interruptions like the ore strike make customers feel insecure, "the whole purpose of ENA is defeated." On the union side, the walkout dramatizes the feeling of some militants that giving up the strike weapon emasculates the union. Ed Sadlowski made that argument vehemently in his losing campaign for U.S.W. president last winter, and he had many supporters on the Mesabi Range, who are now bracing themselves for a long walkout. Says...