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...Window? takes on a different meaning in a country where dogs are sold not only to guard a sweetheart, as the song goes, or as a friend. Only last week, police intercepted a jeep full of dogs - mouths tied and bleeding to prevent them from barking or howling in protest, feet bound to prevent them running, and all l50 of them piled on top of each other - traveling in broad daylight along a main Manila highway. "These are hard times, sir," the vehicle's owner explained, "and this is just a job, a source of livelihood." He claims to have...
...billion New York State pension fund has not sold any stocks and bonds of U.S. companies doing business in South Africa. Rather, we have been leaders in what you describe as an effective "relentless campaign" of using shareholder petitions to force company withdrawal from that country to protest apartheid. Edward V. Regan New York State Comptroller Albany...
...labor strife and racism, while news of the East bloc consists largely of stories about factory openings and trade agreements with Moscow. In one issue last week, Pravda, which usually devotes two of its six daily pages to foreign news, carried items about a student strike in France, a protest in India over the handling of the Bhopal disaster, a "crisis in the rightist camp" in Spain and a controversy about a book on the British intelligence services...
...PROTEST Fasting To Death...
Nearly seven years after the fall of Milosevic, the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party got the most votes at the polls. How do you explain that? This protest vote is slowly eroding but is still strong. But the overall vote at the Jan. 21 elections is clear: two-thirds of our citizens support European integration and economic reform. The Radicals will never be in government, at least not until they change their platform completely...