Word: shipyard
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hope of halting the country's growing political polarization. In the end, Mazowiecki was swayed by the argument that Walesa, who forced Jaruzelski to resign, should not be allowed simply to steamroller his way into power. No matter what the outcome, the fight between Walesa, the former shipyard electrician, and Mazowiecki, the former newspaper editor, ends the alliance between workers and intellectuals that helped topple communism in Poland...
Sometime within the next year, an eerily quiet, 280-ton lime-green ship will leave the docks at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' shipyard in Kobe, Japan, for the first time. Though it will never speed faster than a leisurely 8 knots or carry more than 10 passengers, the Yamato No. 1's maiden voyage will be as unique as the first time Robert Fulton steamed up the Hudson River. Christened last week with a bottle of sake, the Yamato is the world's first vessel to propel itself through the water using the power of magnetism...
...recent strikes by shipyard and railroad workers for higher pay and improved conditions suggest that patience may be wearing out. "People have been amazingly tolerant so far," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "But they are feeling the pinch, and there are many dangers ahead...
...Ulsan 10,000 riot police battled striking shipyard workers. In Seoul 2,400 police arrested union militants at the headquarters of KBS, the national broadcasting network. Workers at several other companies staged brief sympathy strikes. The latest outbreak of labor unrest was a stiff test of the government's new resolve to deal forcefully with strikers to keep South Korea's faltering economy out of trouble...