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...protest the language decree, groups of high school students last Wednesday attempted to organize a rally at Orlando Stadium, Soweto's main sports arena. As the placard-waving students−perhaps 10,000 strong−approached the stadium, they were blocked by a contingent of black police, led by white officers. Trying to disperse the students, the police used tear gas and then fired into the air. Only then−acting in self-defense, police officials insisted−did the troopers fire directly into the rampaging mob; one 13-year-old black boy was killed and several people were...
RETURN THE EXILES! read a Holy Week placard carried by one of the 200 protesters in front of the St. Louis headquarters of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The demonstration was aimed at Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus, conservative head of the denomination, who this month fired four district presidents (roughly equivalent to bishops). Their sin: ordaining graduates of Seminex, the breakaway school from the synod's Concordia Seminary that was founded during the Lutherans' long-running doctrinal dispute over biblical interpretation (TIME, March 4, 1974). The dismissed leaders, who favor a flexible view of the Scriptures, head three...
...demonstrators bore placards denouncing the involvement of the United States and South Africa in the civil war. One such placard read: "Down With U.S. Puppets, FNLA and UNITA! Support the MPLA!," a reference to the two other factions in Angola, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA...
...addition to the initial pressroom violence, the strike has been marked by beatings and threats to nonstrikers, and three shots were fired through the Post's office windows. Graham was burned in effigy at a union rally, and when she saw a photo of a placard reading PHIL...
Copperweld Corp., a Pittsburgh-based producer of specialty steels, fought hard to stave off a takeover by Societe Imetal, a French concern controlled by the Rothschilds. Copperweld executives opposed the bid in court; employees staged placard-waving demonstrations pleading that the company stay American-owned. Stockholders, however, were more impressed by Imetal's offer to pay $42.40 each for shares that sold for $34.50 just before the fight, and last week Imetal announced it had bought 61% of Copperweld's outstanding stock...