Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle started when miners dynamited the local police headquarters to protest a government edict reducing wages and laying off unnecessary workers. The government responded by putting the entire country under a state of siege and ordering 6,500 troops to the area. After a day-long skirmish that left 26 miners and six soldiers dead and some 100 wounded on both sides, the miners retreated into the mines...
Urban Impatience. The riots were triggered by a government edict that would have shunted failing students over 17 into technical curriculums. Only 300 of Morocco's 62,000 high school students were affected, but the innocuous announcement was enough to touch off a powder keg of underlying discontent. Unfortunately, Moroccans have plenty to be discontented about...
...HCUA's abrupt about-face ruling apparently resulted from a wee-hours session between H. Reed Ellis '65, Chairman of the HCUA, and William P. Saum '65, Elections Chairman, who laid down the original edict...
...school except Yale has yet violated the NCAA's edict. Yale entered a New York AAU development meet last December, on the same night the Ivy League agreed not to go along with the NCAA's rule...
...despite their distress, Ollie, 48, and his son Ollie Jr., 24, announced that "as law-abiding Americans, we feel we must bow to this edict." Two hours later, five Negroes walked into Ollie's -which grosses some $450,000 annually-and were served. As for the motel, it had begun accepting Negroes under an earlier federal court order, but only five couples had applied so far-probably because its rates are the highest in Atlanta. And even Rolleston took a philosophical view of the eventual outcome of such race controversies. "With my grandchildren, there...