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Making solemn charges of false teachings, board members of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis last month suspended the school's moderate president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen, and sparked an angry walkout of most of the seminary's students and faculty (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week, using the walkout as grounds for dismissal, the seminary board fired 46 members of the faculty and the executive staff, then promptly appointed seven new professors and 33 part-time faculty members who will be on call to teach the remaining students...
...Lawrence Huff, 48, who was wounded in the stomach by a sniper as he drove his rig near East Liverpool, Ohio. Still other drivers were dragged from their cabs and beaten. Strikers waited guard at truck stops in the Midwest; sometimes, if a driver refused to join the walkout, his tires were slashed, or his radiator was punctured, or his truck was overturned. Part of the underpinning of a Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge near Homewood was dynamited. In Iowa, National Guard helicopters and state police cars had to escort a 71-truck convoy of beef and pork carcasses on their...
...even ten gallons at a time. That has forced them to lose time and money chasing from truck stop to truck stop to keep their rigs running. About half of the nation's food is shipped in trucks, and the potential for disruption in a full-scale walkout is enormous...
Three days later, angered mine leaders ordered the strike vote. It was a move that moderates like National Union of Mineworkers President Joe Gormley had hoped to avoid. If, as expected, the necessary 55% of miners approve a strike, a walkout could come as early as Feb. 10. Said Arthur Scargill, 36, the Yorkshire Mineworkers leader: "I think the fight will go on and become one of the most bitter, bloody battles in the history of the trade union movement." The problem was that there remained serious doubts whether Heath had done everything possible to avoid the showdown. TIME...
...large, Britons agree that the miners are overworked and underpaid on a base pay of $57 a week. Because wages are not high enough to keep an adequate work force, the miners must work overtime to keep the country from collapse. There has been no strike, no walkout. "I am dead against breaching Stage III, but at the same time I'm dead against forcing British industry to its knees," declared Sir Raymond Brookes, chairman of the powerful Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds engineering group. "If the rest of the unions can give firm guarantees that they will not attempt...