Word: striking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--Premier Ladislav Adamec resigned yesterday while still bargaining with a powerful opposition that demanded the communists form an acceptable government or suffer another general strike...
...concessions followed a two-hour general strike Nov. 27, which paralyzed the country...
Opposition leaders threatened to call a general strike on Monday if Communist Premier Ladislav Adamec does not form a new national government by Sunday that includes more non-Communists than the five on the present Cabinet...
Leaders of the Communist-controlled labor organization took the unprecedented step of endorsing a general strike that the opposition has threatened if the national government is not changed this week...
...speaker sent the tax package back to the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday after House members voted to strike from the bill a hike in the capital gains tax. Frezza, however, said the committee is not planning to introduce an altered version of the tax package...