Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the ranks of protesters thinned as the week progressed, the government faces serious problems in providing security at the airport over the long run. A 1,500-man permanent security force is planned, but it will be far from adequate if the current tempo of protest continues. Beyond protecting the 1,360-acre airport itself, authorities have to provide special antisabotage protection for jet fuel and other supplies transported to Narita from the outside. Then there is an expansion plan calling for construction of two runways to supplement the one now in use-requiring the purchase of still more...
...policy in Viet Nam provoked violent demonstrations in the 1960s has an issue so inflamed and coalesced the Japanese radical movement. Beginning in 1967, when the project got under way, there have been 56 major riots and demonstrations, five deaths, 8,100 injuries and 1,900 arrests. The first protests occurred when a group of farmers holding acreage needed for the airport refused to sell and the government confiscated their land. That highhandedness, though achieved through legal channels, caused a storm of protest and quickly brought the youthful rebels to the farmers' cause. As air pollution, noise and other...
During the dinner, traditionally accompanied by noise and loud serenading, members of Adams House, which is adjacent to the Lampoon, walked to the Lampoon and began throwing objects to protest the noise, Lampoon members said...
...Harvard Physics professors have cancelled upcoming trips to the Soviet Union in protest of last week's trial and sentencing of Yuri F. Orlov, a Soviet physicist and critic of Soviet human rights policies...
Bloembergen criticized the Soviet Academy for "its complete silence" about Orlov and other imprisoned dissidents despite "numerous expressions of concern and protest over the past year and a half" from the international scientific community...