Word: picketings
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...community, they certainly had every right to express their feelings about the French President's pro-Arab views. But is it sound tactics or proper behavior for any group of U.S. citizens to insult a visiting head of state? Many sober-minded Jews who are ordinarily strangers to picket lines would answer that their consciences demanded loud protest. In fact, compared with other recent demonstrations, these were small and extremely orderly. Booing Pompidou, of course, is only part of a larger question: at what point does the emotional pull of Jerusalem distort the consideration of foreign policy...
...longer can for a growing number of students. But this reverence most professors harbor for the Law School has not blinded them to what one calls the "we-they atmosphere?" among many faculty and students. Even if they wanted to ignore the new currents, they could not. Law students picket firms like Ropes and Gray (a prestigious Boston firm), ask firms for detailed information about their activities, and lend more time to extracurricular activities than to traditional activities like Ames competition. The Young Republicans and Young Democrats have fared better than their College counterparts, but the growing numbers of blacks...
...such legitimate grievances" as the Plaza Miranda demonstrators voiced. Presumably he was alluding to often repeated charges that U.S. firms plunder Philippine mineral resources and that U.S. servicemen accused of local crimes are sometimes shipped home before they can stand trial. Nonetheless, when another band of protesters formed a picket line at the embassy three days later, police quickly dispersed them...
...student strike called by the Boston University Student Union to protest "political repression" began yesterday with boycott leaders claiming that as many as 80 per cent of the university's 17,000 students refused to cross the non-obstructive picket lines placed in front of classroom buildings...
Members of the Student Union strike committee expressed disappointment, however, in the low number of students who participated in the picket line. "It was just too cold." one strike committee member said last night. "That's polities at B.U.-you have to have the weather...