Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waited until both sides asked him to act. Then he got to work." Daley also had clout and trust. A handshake was sufficient to seal an agreement. Because she is new to the scene, Byrne's handshake is not yet enough. With the help of management personnel, she got some trains rolling, and rode on one herself. A Chicago judge then came to her rescue by issuing a permanent injunction against the strike and ordering binding arbitration of the dispute. After four days in the yards, the buses and trains were in service, but the walkout left scars...
...crack troops that invaded Cambodia have since been reinforced by more than another 100,000 men. In addition, the Vietnamese have trained a vast Cambodia militia. Vietnamese soldiers and Cambodian militiamen are on the move by such strangely disparate modes of transport as elephants, Soviet tanks and American-made personnel carriers, helicopters and planes captured by Hanoi after the U.S. withdrawal...
...reason for the caution was that U.S. installations and personnel remain vulnerable to mob attack, as was demonstrated so visibly once again last week in Libya. Spurred on by pro-Khomeini slogans from sound trucks, 2,000 demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Tripoli. While all 15 Americans escaped through a side exit, the crowd set fires that heavily damaged the embassy's first floor. The U.S. has rejected Libya's apology as inadequate, and suspended embassy operations-a step just short of breaking diplomatic relations. The State Department complained that the Libyan government had ignored repeated American...
After last week's attack, American service personnel were advised not to wear their uniforms off post or to get into potentially dangerous situations. Navy personnel are now traveling in small vans that have police-car escorts. Riding shotgun in the vans are Marines that the Pentagon flew to Puerto Rico after the bus ambush...
...fearing a threat to morality and family life. The church does not allow women in its priesthood (its term for all laymen eligible to hold office). The ruling against Johnson was issued after a closed-door hearing that made national headlines and TV. It was delivered by CIA Personnel Officer Jeffery Willis, her local bishop (a layman who serves as leader of individual Mormon congregations...