Word: counterprotests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorize shopkeepers, block roadways and telephone anonymous threats to workers who went to their jobs. They poured sugar in gas tanks, fired shots at a school bus and bombed a rail line. When Mairead Corrigan, leader of the Women's Peace Movement, appeared to wage a counterprotest, they tore up her pacifist placards. Among the opponents of the strike who were subjected to "U.D.A. persuasion" was Thomas Passmore, the leader of the Protestant Orange Order in Belfast. Passmore, whose aged father had been shot dead by the I.R.A. last year, complained bitterly, "My own home has already suffered...
...disaffected agent, Robert Wall, recently quit the FBI when he found himself pointlessly transcribing the speeches of antiwar activists although even stronger protests were being voiced by Senators on the floors of Congress. He claimed that agents were engaged in counterprotest activity, sending out fake press releases to confuse or create strife within the peace movement. Clearly, the FBI has no business playing that kind of game...
While Shapp mulled over what to do, the protest and counterprotest boiled on. In an unusual turn, Patricia Arney, 32, a divorcee who is a district Democratic committeewoman, revealed to the Philadelphia Inquirer that State Senator Henry J. Cianfrani, 49, one of the conservative bill's strongest supporters, had paid for her abortion in 1970 while they were having an affair, and produced a receipt for his check to prove it. He did not deny their relationship, but said that he had given her the money to visit her family in Toledo and did not know that there...
...ensuring peace. His talk was repeatedly disrupted by catcalls; one young scientist even hurled a tomato at the Minnesota Senator (the missile missed). Muttered the tomato thrower as he was led off by police: "I could have hit him between the eyes if I wanted to." In a counterprotest, former Presidential Aide Daniel Moynihan, now a professor at Harvard and a newly elected A.A.A.S. vice president, angrily canceled his own planned speech (title: "Waste Disposal in an Age of Rubbish") and indignantly told a press conference: "I'm a political scientist and I smell fascism...