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Even before the Archbishop's murder, the military's strong-arm attempts to maintain order had provoked the angry walkout of two civilians in the ruling junta. The junta averted collapse only when a leading moderate, Christian Democrat Party Leader José Napoleón Duarte, was persuaded to join it last March. Its hold on power, however, remains tenuous because it is caught in a vise between the right and the left. Earlier this year a rightist coup that would have ushered in a full-scale military takeover was quashed at the last minute, mostly because Washington...
...strike may go into extra innings. The last walkout by the actors ran for six weeks in 1960. This one could go on even longer, for both sides know that the out come will determine, for years to come, how the industry will divide the profits from the new technology: pay TV, video discs and video cassettes. "It is important that this strike not be minimized," says Winkler, almost unrecognizable behind a thick beard. "Ninety-eight percent of actors aren't as fortunate as I am. If we don't do this...
...strike was averted June 30 when the union's bargaining committee tentatively agreed to the pact six minutes before a threatened walkout was to begin...
...workers back to their jobs was the offer of a wage increase of about $20 per month. Similar raises were granted in virtually all the enterprises hit by strikes. More significant, the workers won the regime's promise not to retaliate against strike leaders. Even as the Lublin walkout ended, other strikes were bursting out: at the Stalowa Wola steel mill about 50 miles south of Lublin, among transport workers in Chelm 40 miles to the east, among newspaper deliverymen in Warsaw, at an agricultural machinery plant in Wroclaw. The strikes came in the midst of an economic crisis...
...union, stay off their jobs to support picket lines of the carpenters' local. The local stages a wildcat strike after the University orders five of its carpenters to report to work as painters and lampers, bringing to a head the controversial issue of job re-classification. The B&G walkout lasts three days, forcing the department to shut down all but emergency services...