Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many militant farmers warn they will launch a nationwide strike on Dec. 14 unless Government price supports are raised substantially. They are threatening to stop selling their crops and stop buying supplies and equipment. Says Bud Bitner, a Colorado farmer who helped organize the protest, which is concentrated in such wheat-belt states as Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and the Dakotas: "We're not trying to shut off the food supply of the nation. We're trying to get a reasonable price...
...plowshares into swords. Talk of a farm strike began last July as grain elevators filled to capacity; excess wheat spilled into the main streets of rural towns and prices began to slide seriously. Disgruntled farmers staged impromptu demonstrations. In Clarkfield, Minn., a tractor caravan of 500 farmers spearheaded a protest. Jon Wefald, a former Minnesota agriculture commissioner, urged the protesters: "Do like the sheiks did with the oil. One day they sat down and said: 'It's all over, boys. We're going to start charging you.' I'm waiting...
...Corrigan and Williams rarely take their courageous, much-publicized peace strolls through the city's tense confrontation zones. Some early supporters have defected after disputes with Ciaran Mc-Keown, an ex-journalist who has become the chief ideologue of the movement. Mc-Keown has switched the emphasis from protest marches toward projects of "community democracy" that he hopes will start to heal the hatreds between Northern Ireland's 1 million Protestants and its 500,000 Catholics...
Nothing mocks the democratic pretentions of the Communist nations more than a mass protest. Twice in recent weeks, East bloc governments have been embarrassed by such signals of popular discontent. Items...
...outburst of violent labor unrest in the nation's southwest, but last week letters from strikers describing the disturbances reached the West. Some 35,000 miners from the Jiul River basin, which provides 70% of the country's coal supply, went on strike in early August to protest food shortages, unpaid overtime work and a reduction of pension and sickness benefits. The walkout was by far the largest in Rumania since the Communist takeover...