sentences:  The 51-week miners' strike of 1984–85 was followed a year later by the 54-week Wapping dispute launched by newspaper printers in London.It resulted in a second major defeat for unions and another victory for Thatcher's union policies, especially her assurance that the police would defend the plants against pickets trying to shut them down.The target was Britain's largest privately owned newspaper empire, News International (parent of "The Times" and "News of the World" and others, all owned by Rupert Murdoch).