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Word: evict (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though some local residents were sympathetic with the group's aims, many found the camp an eyesore. A newly formed citizens' organization called on the government to throw out the protesters. The Department of Transport obtained a court order to evict the women to make way for a road-widening project. An Initial attempt to remove the demonstrators early last week was foiled as police came head to head with more than 200 angry women in full view of television and newspaper journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Camp at Greenham: Britain ends a protest over missile deployment | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...Chanting "Fight, Fight", 200 demonstrators surge into University Hall, and forcibly evict Dean of Students Richard B. Watson, Dean of Freshman F. Skiddy von Stade '38, Assistant Deans Archie C. Epps III an W.C. Burriss Young '55, and others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Power to the People' | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...force to evict the student protesters did more than unify the student body--it "crystallized the polarization in the faculty that had begun earlier," recalls Maier. The Faculty had been split from the beginning between support of student demands and alliance with the administration; although most viewed the University Hall take-over as inappropriate, many were even more horrified by the sudden police action...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer and Melissa I. Weissberg, S | Title: Reflecting On the 1969 Student Strike | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...Afghanistan, why not concentrate on these places first? The problem, of course, is the inference of Soviet control. If Qaddafi or the Sandinistas or the Angolan leadership or the Syrians really are the equivalent of the Afghan puppet regime or the Polish dictatorship, then how to thwart or evict them becomes are reasonable question. If, however, they are involved with--but not controlled by--the Soviet Union, then confrontation may drive them irreversibly into the Soviet camp. Consider, for example, Fider Castro...

Author: By Seth Singleton, | Title: Provoking The Hedgehogs | 10/21/1983 | See Source »

...violence always seems to be unsheathed and ready to strike. Two Israeli soldiers were killed last week when a bomb exploded as their truck rumbled along a highway in southern Lebanon. In downtown Beirut, Lebanese army soldiers battled Shi'ite Muslim militiamen after government police tried to evict Shi'ite squatters from an abandoned school. Seven people died, including two soldiers. In the Chouf Mountains southeast of Beirut, Druze villagers clashed with a Lebanese army patrol. The toll: two dead and 18 wounded. The last incident carried ominous implications since the Lebanese army is expected to guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: It Is Very, Very Serious | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

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