Word: wildcat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They pressed us," Wildcat goalie Michele Flannell said. "At times, they really stifled us with their defense. But we didn't have one of our best games either...
...Crimson continued to pressure the Wildcat defense until it scored again, 13 minutes later. Sophomore Cathy Dawson fed a pass to a streaking Karin Pinezich for the second tally...
...think everybody is scampering." At the outset, the mission had a comicopera quality to it. The planned arrival from the U.S. Southern Command in Panama of the C-5A transport ferrying the helicopters, to be followed by C-130 troop planes, had to be delayed three days because a wildcat gasoline strike prevented refueling at Santa Cruz airport. While the huge C-5A sat at the airport in full view of TV cameras, reporters and, presumably, drug merchants, U.S. troops needed four days to transport supplies to a base camp north of Trinidad, in Bolivia's lush northeastern Beni region...
...power of black unions has been demonstrated twice in recent months. Union-backed "stay-aways" on May 1 and again on the June 16 anniversary of the 1976 Soweto riots succeeded in halting most South African business and industrial activity. Continuing wildcat strikes throughout the country have also contributed to a growing sense of unease in the South African business community. Now COSATU has called for another "day of action" this week, testing the government's mettle with yet another nationwide strike...
...which under the de facto censorship was more or less obliged to take the Botha government's word for it. A series of minor terrorist explosions took place in Durban, Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape, and at week's end police killed four black guerrillas near the Botswana border. Wildcat strikes and worker "stayaways" continued in about 100 supermarkets and other retail stores, underscoring reports that around 180 union officials remained in detention, along with perhaps 1,600 other blacks. Out of an estimated 3,000 arrested since the emergency was declared on June 12, about 1,200 were thought...