Word: walkout
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...pull his own small army back to Lusaka to avoid an accidental clash. In the rail center of Livingstone, the town's first race disturbance-a minor scuffle in which nobody was seriously hurt-caused 300 white railwaymen to strike for government protection, and the walkout crippled the nation's copper shipments. Three hundred miles to the north came the most serious incident of all: saboteurs blew up the main power line from Rhodesia, blacking out most of the copper mines...
...Only the third walkout in the Security Council's history. The others: Russia's angry departure during the Azerbaijan debate in 1946 and again in 1950 as a protest against Nationalist China serving as Council president...
Offering Bait. First off, the five partners-West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-agreed substantially on a complicated method of financing agricultural subsidies inside the Common Market, the problem that led to the French walkout. They also dropped some proposals that De Gaulle opposes, such as one to give more power over farm-subsidy money to a Europe-wide Parliament and to the EEC executive commission. As bait for the French, the five offered to hold one ministerial meeting without the commission's Eurocrats, whom De Gaulle dislikes because their supranational leanings conflict with his dream...
...more able to accept Britain's conditions for independence than was Harold Wilson able to compromise them. The terms are the minimum Wilson feels necessary not only on moral grounds but to prevent a Labor Party revolt that could topple his government-not to mention a walkout of African nations that could wreck the Commonwealth. He insists that Rhodesia's whites guarantee "unimpeded progress" toward majority rule by the blacks, who outnumber them 18 to 1, and that approval of independence be demonstrated by the vote of a majority of Rhodesians, both white and black...
...three-week strike was officially over, and all New York City newspapers were publishing again. It was an uneasy and precarious peace. The Newspaper Guild's Tom Murphy seemed to he threatening yet another walkout: "If the World-Telegram and Journal-American were to merge," said he, speaking of an event the industry expects, "I could put a picket line out, and they wouldn't publish as individual papers, let alone as a merged paper." Printers' Boss Bert Powers was reminding everyone that he has not given an inch in his demands. Any new contracts, said Powers...