Word: marches
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...Aviv, which resulted in 18 deaths, and a 1978 coastal raid that left a trail of 45 dead bodies from Haifa to Tel Aviv. He is also believed to have helped direct the uprising in the occupied territories. Israeli authorities pointed an accusing finger at al-Wazir last March, following the hijacking of a bus in southern Israel that claimed the lives of three Israeli civilians. At the time, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir vowed, "Our hand will bring to justice those who are responsible...
...Whatever hopes brokers had for a rebound the next day were thwarted by another burst of bad news. The U.S. Government revealed that producer prices surged by 0.6% in March, after dropping 0.2% the month before. Though it was only a one-month figure, and one that may be an aberration, the 0.6% increase translated into an annual rate of 7%, far higher than last year's 2.1% upswing in producer prices and 4.4% hike in consumer prices. Even so, the market reacted more calmly to the news than many investors thought it would. After being down by more than...
...Overseers Executive Committee then made the decision to divert the divestment issue to the Standing Committee on Institutional Policy to decide how the Board should proceed. The Standing Committee recommended in March that the Board not vote on divestment, but instead form a joint committee with the Corporation to discuss the divestment issue...
Activists have made the argument in the past few months that the disagreement over a Board vote goes back to the original Charter and the legal role of the Board. Robert Weissman '88-89, director of the Ralph Nader-sponsored Harvard Watch, wrote a report to the Overseers in March arguing that the Board should resurrect its rights and vote on divestment...
...group, composed of homeless people, the formerly homeless, shelter volunteers, students and other activists, undertook the two-hour march and joined about 30 more protesters in a rally on the steps of the State House...