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...Federation of Trade Unions (A.C.F.T.U.) has been encouraged to organize workers in foreign- owned factories. But at the same time Beijing has made clear that it will not tolerate unsanctioned labor organizing. Worker protests have been broken up, often brutally, by police. Labor dissidents have been harassed, arrested, forced underground and chased into exile. In China today, nothing triggers violent repression more readily than the threat of a Solidarity-style independent labor movement...
Greed also comes into play. Although only two companies are authorized to produce the drug in Brazil, several underground laboratories reportedly sell it to people without a prescription. Health authorities shut down one illicit operation last year, after a TV-news crew showed how easy it was to buy the pills...
Protons and anti-protons were smashed against each other at high speeds in the four-mile -long underground circular tunnel of the accelerator, and top quarks were blasted out from the collisions...
...Mole was a "distinctively political" magazine, according to Tom Gallagher, a former Boston College Student who wrote for The Old Mole during the summer of 1969. In the way, it was unlike the majority of underground publications in the area, which often focused on culture...
...great success of the group ended violently when a March 6, 1970 explosion killed members of its final permutation, the Weather Underground, who were assembling pipe bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse...