Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After one day of talks, Robert Fabre, head of the Left Radical Movement, staged a dramatic walkout in protest against Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais's demand for sweeping changes in the program. As Marchais stepped up before the TV cameras outside the conference hall, Fabre shoved him aside and declared that "the French people are not prepared to sacrifice free enterprise and individual initiative to the extent the Communists would like." Marchais proposed that the Communists and Socialists continue the talks without Radical participation. The Socialists declined, and the summit was suspended...
...national Black People's Convention and undisputed spiritual leader of the black consciousness movement inside South Africa. His death triggered a chorus of demands, by both blacks and whites, for an investigation, and at week's end there was growing concern that memorial services and protest meetings might turn into more militant demonstrations by angry blacks...
...close friend. At week's end the mood of defiance was spreading. More than 1,200 black students challenged a ban on unauthorized assemblies to attend a memorial service for Biko at the black University of Fort Hare. They were arrested en masse without incident. Other protest meetings were scheduled for this week. In the black township of Soweto, where 24,000 high school pupils have been protesting discriminatory education by refusing to register for the coming term, one student said of Biko's death: "The sorrow is still with us. The anger will come later...
...Mather House, where students last year formed an "Eggshell Alliance" to protest their having to walk to Leverett for a full breakfast, the sounds of discontent could be heard again last week...
Charles L. Diana '78, president of the Mather House Council, said last week that although the council is not planning any formal protest, some students "are trying to get something together." Time will tell...