Word: striking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adamec is due to name a new coalition government by Sunday that would include non-Communists and possibly members of the Civic Forum opposition group, which headed up 11 days of anti-government protests and a hugely successful general strike Monday...
...concluded with an appeal to Czechoslovaks to work peacefully while remaining on alert to strike if necessary. He said students and actors still on strike probably would end their sit-ins in a day or so, but that Civic Forum would support them if they continued...
Students began the pro-democracy movement after a demonstration Nov. 17 that was put down brutally by police, and 80,000 have been on strike for a week...
Adamec made the pledges in a meeting with the opposition Civic Forum movement after 11 straight days of unprecedented protest in Czechoslovakia. Millions of workers observed a two-hour general strike Monday, but the streets were quiet yesterday because the Civic Forum asked for calm...
Hundreds of thousands of joyous workers streamed into the city's center, carrying banners of their factories, firms and offices in an outpouring of national pride and support for democratic reforms. Sirens howled and church bells pealed as the strike began at noon...