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Still, the walkout was not a total success. Japan, Australia and most Communist countries did not participate. Arab nations ignored the demonstration as "political." In the U.S., where the airlines obtained a last-minute court injunction against the strike, only a few pilots defied the order. The lack of American cooperation especially angered pilots on foreign carriers. "What really enraged us," said a member of the West German Pilots' Association, "was seeing Pan Am come and go chock-full of passengers...
Army and Princeton, both with victories over Harvard, at rated ahead of the Crimson, but Harvard's double loss came while the team was in the throes of injury and walkout problems and thus the Cadets and the Tigers advantage seems questionable...
...baseball strike ended in its 13th day yesterday when the owners and players agreed to start the 1972 season on Saturday without rescheduling any of the 86 games postponed by the player-walkout. Marvin Miller, executive director of the players' association asserted, "Clearly the players have triumphed in something that few people thought they could or would do, they have stood together...
Wallace remains coy about telling what he will do if he cannot get the nomination. He prefers to ask what such liberals as McGovern and Lindsay will do if he-Wallace-is nominated. Will they start third parties? Actually, a liberal walkout would not be unlikely. Kane is convinced that Wallace will run again on his American Party ticket if the convention shuns him-even if that would hurt Nixon enough to elect a Democrat. Says Kane: "Wallace doesn't care where the dust would settle if he ran as a third-party candidate. He is not interested...
Effective, in the sense the sanitationmen's nine-day walkout was effective, is perhaps an understatement. As the garbage piled higher in the streets, DeLury's bargaining hand grew stronger. But that little episode also got him sent to jail--"not for striking," he reminds, "but for criminal contempt." "They turned loose 10,000 men on the streets, and yet there was no damage, no violence. There was a major crisis," he recalls with a quick grin...