Word: counterdemand
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Whistle Blown. That started the battle. In reprisal, the Serbians drafted a counterdemand that Serbian students in Croatia be taught in their home language. Newspapers in both republics were soon filled with blistering editorials, letters and articles. In Croatia, factories, government agencies and schools began organizing anti-Serbian protests. It may have seemed like just a harmless dispute, but Tito knows how weak are the ties that bind Yugoslavia's six republics and how strong the regional rivalries. Fearing, the political consequences of the squabble, he blew the whistle...
...week the trimmers figured that this was not quite enough. Demanding a raise, grain trimmers' Local 1268 of the rugged International Longshoremen's Association marched out on an angry strike that stopped all grain exports from the world's biggest port. The shippers answered with a counterdemand: that the trimmers abandon their 30-year-old system of piecework pay, instead accept regular longshoremen's wages of $3.12 an hour, as they do at all other U.S. ports. The New York trimmers now get $14 and up for every 1,000 bushels of grain that are loaded...
...Attache Joseph Kolarek for "inducing" Czech USIS employees "to spy and gather news"; and 2) the closing of the two USIS offices because they are spy centers and spread "hostile and aggravating and false news." Dispatched: a reluctant compliance (since international law is on their side), along with a counterdemand for the shutdown of the Czech consulate in Chicago by May i. Noted: on its last day the Prague USIS office gave away 15,000 books and brochures to 3,000 Czechs who jammed in all day, despite secret police outside...