Word: marches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 2 at Brown 7:30 p.m. 3 at Yale...
Czechoslovak TV said at least 200,000 people took part in the march in the capital. It also reported 20,000 protesters in the city of Brno, 10,000 in Bratislava and 5000 in Liberec...
...Freedom!" and "End to one party rule!" cried the demonstrators in Prague. Their protest began with a few hundred people in central Wenceslas Square and turned into a triumphal march for democracy, accompanied by the clanging of bells from sympathetic trolley-car drivers. Bystanders jangled their keys in solidarity...
...similar battle has been taking place in Texas, which has the country's No. 2 textbook market. The state board of education drafted guidelines requiring positive teaching about evolution for the first time. But in March, Bible Belters won a last-minute insertion that in addition to evolution, science classes should cover "other reliable scientific theories, if any." That opens the door to "scientific creationism," which offers evidence for the immediate creation of life-forms but does not refer to the Bible. Publishers are now trying to tackle the new requirements as they prepare science textbooks for submission to Texas...
...major changing of the guard: all three companies are expected to get new chief executives in the space of two years. Late last week Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, 63, who helped engineer that company's heroic comeback, said he will turn over the posts of chairman and CEO on March 1 to Harold Poling, 64, a vice chairman...