Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparently the news of those casualties that sparked last week's rioting in Sumgait (pop. 223,000), situated about 20 miles north of the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. According to a local television worker reached by telephone, the trouble started when a group of some 50 Azerbaijanis arrived in Sumgait from Nagorno-Karabakh bearing word of ethnic fighting there. The apparent result was a murderous backlash aimed at local Armenians. An Armenian resident of Sumgait, sobbing into the telephone, told Reuters that Azerbaijanis had gone on a rampage of rape and murder against Armenians. He said that seven members...
HUCTW says they have enough cards to petition for an election any time they want. But at this point, the union hasn't played any of those cards, waiting until the most strategic time for a worker referendum...
...like this. I like to deal with young people," said election worker Annie Scanlon of Cambridge, who was stationed at Quincy House. "It's so much pleasanter...
...Tori Pillinger, Adel Allender and Diann Roffe. (McKinney and Armstrong, on the mend, are at Calgary and ready to race.) Then only an hour before she was to race in the downhill, Team Veteran Pam Fletcher, the last realistic hope for a top-15 showing, collided with a course worker on a practice run and broke...
...until the bad breaks began to overwhelm the bad sports did a few graceful U.S. instincts take hold. Downhill Racer Pam Fletcher, 25, missed her precious chance, when she crashed the day before the event into a skiing maintenance worker ("like hitting a tree") and broke her leg. After a brief cry, Fletcher was smiling again. "You can't have everything, you know," she said. "Where would you put it?" No American man or woman had ever finished as high as sixth in an Olympic luge, and when Bonny Warner moved up from the eighth position on her final...