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...Girling company, a large manufacturer of brakes. That started a disastrous chain reaction. For lack of brakes, automobile companies had to close several plants and lay off thousands of workers. Ford Motor Co., Ltd., alone lost an esti mated $50 million in sales during the four weeks that the walkout lasted...
...Francisco State College, a months-old student strike was complicated by a partial walkout by teachers. Mounted police charged groups of students along off-campus streets; rocks flew and the toll of arrests and injuries climbed steadily. The basic issue faced by Acting President S. I. Hayakawa remained the demands for more minority admissions and minority studies posed by the Black Students Union and the Third World Liberation Front, an organization representing campus minority groups other than Negroes. Some of the demands have been met, but the militants insist that all must be satisfied without negotiations or compromise. Governor Ronald...
...Long Island, Negro students and some whites at Lawrence High School staged a two-day walkout to protest, among other things, the administration's failure to hire more Negro teachers. They returned after agreement was reached with school officials on eleven points, including the hiring of more blacks, the installation of a painting of Dr. Martin Luther King at the school and time off for black students on Dr. King's birthday...
...strike and forbade its members from crossing the picket line. Many of the labor leaders had led local Wallace forces during the Presidential campaign, and they were quick to point out that their move was "in no way supporting the demands of students protestors." But by supporting the teachers' walkout, the labor unions were, of course, bolstering the students as well...
...flagpoles on earth." The meetings have now turned into what one participant calls "the battle of the bladder." They often run for eight hours, and if any of the senior members leaves the table before the ses sion is formally closed, the other side interprets it as a deliberate walkout. The talks are also spiced with undiplomatic language. When U.S. Army Major General Richard Ciccolella was the senior United Nations member last year, he regularly prefaced his remarks to North Korean Major General Pak Chun Kuk with the phrase: "Pak, you bastard." Pak, in turn, snapped at Ciccolella when...