Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scattered protesters around the yard called out "Lift the Ban" while Powell was speaking. But for the most part, protest was visual rat her than vocal...
...people stood up and turned their backs while Powell was speaking in the afternoon. Some graduating students held up mortarboards with "Lift the Ban" stickers on them, distributed by the Commencement Pride Coalition, a group of students, faculty and alumni who planned Commencement Day protest activities...
Greenspan said he had some disturbing encounters. "As Powell's honorary degree was being awarded, I shouted 'Lift the ban, Colin. A couple of marshals... started hitting me in the stomach with an umbrella," he said...
Pink balloons stating "Lift the Ban" were all over the Yard, tied to wrists, chairs and strollers. A few of the faculty and administrators sitting on stage also had balloons...
...decisions with that minority. They said they would never talk with the A.N.C., and they fought almost every election on that basis. We have made them sit down and talk to us. We are now together planning the future South Africa. They have had to unban the A.N.C., to lift the state of emergency, to allow a climate of free political activity, which they had not allowed for more than 40 years. They have released political prisoners, allowed political exiles to return to the country, amended and even repealed repressive legislation, and agreed on the installation of a transitional executive...