Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gulf Oil has long been a thorn in the University's side. In 1972, students took over Mass Hall for several days to protest Harvard's shares in the company, which was then supporting the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola...
...must protest your cover blurb -"Mao's wife" indeed! Surely a woman as formidable and powerful as Chiang...
Died. William Stuart Nelson, 81, former dean of religion at Washington's Howard University and an early advocate, along with Martin Luther King Jr., of nonviolent protest to combat racial segregation; in Hyattsville, Md. A soft-spoken but self-assured Baptist minister. Nelson became a convert to the strategy of passive resistance after he met Mahatma Gandhi in India in 1946. In the early 1960s, he predicted that it would "reshape the entire structure of race relations...
...though Andreotti avoided what to Italians is "a crisis in the dark"-meaning the collapse of yet another unstable government with no alternative in sight-political tension mounted in the country. Some 150,000 disgruntled workers massed in Rome's Piazza San Giovanni (sometimes called "Red Square") to protest the government policy of wage curbs; an estimated 1.5 million Romans walked off their jobs, paralyzing the capital...
...Committee for Women's Studies, we are writing to protest Dean Epps's ruling against the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) women's dining hall planned for Tuesday evening, March 15 at Mather House. Epps's action reveals a lack of understanding of the history and purpose of these dining halls and demonstrates a general insensitivity to the position and interests of women on this campus. That such an event was permitted at the Radcliffe Quad for six years but prohibited any closer to the River exemplifies Harvard's ambivalence toward its merged-non-merged sisters...