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Colin Foster 300,000 Indian dockworkers returned to work on April 11 after a 26 day strike.

The Gandhi government, which runs the ports, initially declared the strike illegal and sent in the navy to move goods, but eventually negotiated a deal on the workers' wage demand.

According to the Financial Times (April 12), the final settlement cost Rs 390 million a year — which means that it was about the same level as the offer made by the government in late March. It was a rise of 18.5 per cent (R$100, or £6.50, per month on average), as compared to the government's initial offer of 15 per cent and the workers' demand of 30%.

It was the biggest docks strike ever in India, and follows other major strikes in recent years. A two-year strike in the Bombay textile industry ended in defeat last year, and the longest strike ever in the jute industry of West Bengal ended on April 7.

After a six week strike, 25,000 jute workers won slightly smaller increases than the dockers — a minimum Rs 65 (£4.20) per month rise.

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of Rica by Sandinista renegade Eden Pastora. and businessman Alfonso Robelo - seized the town of San Juan del Norte in south-east Nicaragua.

the town had only 200 inhabitants before they were evacuated last year, and has no huge economic or strategic significance. But a toehold for a 'provisional government' is something that the counter-revolutionaries have been seeking for a long time.

ARDE claims that a provisional government will be set up in San Juan de Norte "within 90 days". The scenario then is for this 'provisional government' to appeal for 'assistance' — and the troops roll in.

ARDE has distanced itself from the more overtly rightwing FDN (based in Honduras), and officially claims to be independent from the US. But a detailed report in the Sunday Times on April 8 gave evidence that these claims are false.

The mining of Nicaragua's ports " 'was wholly a CIA operation' , said an ARDE man. "They only took along some of our people to legitimise it' "Rebel sources say that since late 1982 ARDE has been receiving CIA supplies through... Panama...

'ARDE's chief fund-raiser, including five light aircratt, the