Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside Faneuil Hall, a small group of pro-choice protesters chanting and carrying signs, and led by longtime pro-abortion activist Bill Baird picketed the building. Opposite them, a group of about 40 anti-abortion protesters walked in an identical circle as a cadre of police officers watched...
Baird blamed the Reagan Administration and the conservative mood that has swept the country for strengthening the anti-abortion movement...
This is a dangerous doctrine. Less than three weeks ago, the militant Animal Liberation Front (ALF) firebombed nine British stores which sell fur coats. In New York, Jewish furriers have been the targets of anti-fur vandalism which equates the manufacture of fur coats to Nazism...
Word of the Nanjing violence set off further outbreaks. In Hangzhou, African students boycotted classes. In Wuhan and Beijing, hundreds of Chinese students staged anti-African demonstrations. The Gambia government registered a formal protest, and diplomats from Ghana and Benin voiced displeasure over Chinese treatment of their nationals. But overall reaction from the continent was restrained, reflecting the conflicting nuances of Africa's dealings with China: gratitude for decades of Chinese support; familiarity with Chinese ; racism, which has been intensified by economic frustrations; and worries about how to protect existing links with Beijing...
...years ago, we changed our policy and normalized relations with the U.S.," he said. "Soon we will also normalize our relations with the U.S.S.R. So the relative importance of the African countries to China is diminishing." There is little in that view to reassure anyone worried about future anti-African resentment...