Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...electrician in the Lenin Shipyard in 1970, when bloody riots broke out over food prices and prompted him to join the yard's strike committee. Just before the recurrence of rioting in 1976, he was fired for criticizing national economic policies. In 1979 he joined a group of activist workers who called themselves the Baltic Free Trade Unions. Their goal: an independent trade union. That became the main issue of the current strike after the workers remembered Walesa and successfully demanded that he be rehired. He quickly joined the strike and took the lead in negotiations, forcing an early...
...strike, a man rose and identified himself as a member of the local writers' union and pleaded for understanding for Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek. When a bona fide member of the writers' union and one shipyard worker denounced the man as an impostor and provocateur, a group of workers backed him against the wall. Walesa grabbed the microphone and warned, "If he is hit or even touched, I will give up the leadership." He then called for 20 workers to escort the man from the hall and admonished, "Don't whistle, don't shout. Show...
...Aviv, did not recognize Jerusalem as Israel's official capital and accepted the inconvenience of a 45-mile drive from the coast to the Judean Hills every time a diplomat wished to do business with Israel's Prime Minister or other key officials. By contrast, a smaller group of foreign ambassadors, consisting of twelve Latin Americans and a Dutchman, took the view that West Jerusalem was legitimately Israel's capital and, with its dry days and cool nights, a much more sensible place for an embassy than the steamy, often tacky environs of Tel Aviv...
...also Chairman of the Communist Party, would formally be relieved of his government duties as Premier and replaced by former Governor of Sichuan province Zhao Ziyang, 62. That was likely to be the most dramatic step taken to accomplish the ambitious goal of transferring government power from one group to another. Along with the resignation of Hua, who, at 60, is himself relatively young, will come the voluntary departure from their government posts of some half a dozen old revolutionaries. The group includes the mastermind of the whole set of changes, Senior Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, 76, effectively the country...
...months, as Chrysler tottered on the brink of bankruptcy, also raise again the question of business's relations with Government. Chrysler continues to exist only because of federal aid. Talk of other business-Government agreements in the industry has already started. The Carter Administration has proposed that a group of auto, labor and Government leaders meet to discuss the industry's problems. Says Transportation Secretary Goldschmidt: "We value this industry, and we don't intend to let it fail." Ford President Petersen adds: "It's my job to improve our productivity and efficiency as much...