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Chrysler dealers coming from across the country to Boston Tuesday for a display of 1966 cars will be met by demonstrators protesting the firm's investments in South Africa. Students for a Democratic Society will picket the War Memorial Auditorium, where the cars are being unveiled, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Tuesday, an SDS spokesman said yesterday...
Unable to have her exhibition-bound art removed from a strikebound ship in Manhattan, French Sculptress Jacque line Fayet-Leroy stationed herself by the picket lines, went on a hunger strike. After five days, the strikers could no longer stand it, and last week they al lowed longshoremen to remove the crate containing her six sculptures. That was about the only visible progress in the eight-week-old maritime strike, which has become one of the most frustrating in U.S. history. The walkout by deck officers, engineers and radiomen has idled 99 of the best U.S. ships (including the superliner...
...began at 5:10 p.m. with the 67 demonstrators who were sitting at the gate encircled by nearly the same number of policemen. Between 500 and 600 other demonstrators marched in a nearby picket line that was loosely surrounded by about 150 policemen...
...really a breach of academic manners." But in an interview at Michigan he also noted: "If procedures and mechanisms for adjusting grievances aren't trusted by students and faculty, we have to improve them. If student groups feel that the only way to get change is to picket the chancellor's house, then something is wrong...
Early this month, 50,000 German university students marched out of their classrooms for day-long demonstrations along the streets of 120 cities and towns. The picket lines had nothing to do with banning the bomb or demanding free speech. Carrying such signs as WHERE IS OUR FAMOUS GERMAN EDUCATION NOW?, the students were protesting the decline and fall of a school system that once was as synonymous with excellence as Swiss watches are in timekeeping. One newspaper called the demonstrations, designed to prod West Germany's two major political parties into pledging their support for better education...