Word: general
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...group of rebels was apparently trapped by the army as it moved along a ravine behind the Sheraton, and fled into the shelter of the lobby. The guerrillas probably did not know that among the guests were the Green Berets and Joao Baena Soares, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, who was trying to work out a cease-fire. As the rebels took up residence in the Sheraton's VIP Tower, Salvadoran commandos hurriedly escorted Soares out of the hotel and drove him away in an armored car. The Green Berets were not so fortunate. Armed with...
...General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...