Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students who negotiated the compromise "had no ambition to harm the donor, the donor's interests, the school, or the students who had made the original protest and consequently came to regard all sides of the proposition, even though they may have felt the protestors' demands were the appropriate resolution," Allison said last week...
Says he: "There are 60 conservative Democrats who are mad about economic policies and could be persuaded to protest just about any liberal policy. Add them to the Republican votes and you have a majority. But that's not my interest...
...threatening to walk out if they do not get them. Members of the workers' council have been demanding sweeping changes in management. But when NIOC Chief Hassan Nazih fired six of the top directors in April, the rest of the top management resigned en masse in protest, forcing Nazih abjectly to ask everyone back. The refinery simply could not run without them. The workers then immediately voted to strike, but agreed to put off a walkout pending further talks with Nazih or his representatives. If a strike hits Abadan, the walkout would certainly spread to other fields...
...from Three Mile Island are reaching Europe's shores, giving much new force to the antinuclear movement. The West German government two weeks ago had to scuttle plans to build a nuclear reprocessing and waste-storage facility at Gorleben, near the East German border, after a Harrisburg-inspired protest by environmentalists and "citizen initiative" groups. Said Count Otto Lambsdorff, West Germany's Economics Minister: "This could be the death knell for our whole nuclear policy, including the export of nuclear plants...
More than anywhere else, the ripples have grown into a wave of protest in Switzerland. Last week, in a national referendum, 70% of the voters favored much tighter controls on nuclear construction. No new plant can be built until planners submit proof that 1) it is definitely needed, and 2) the waste-disposal problem is solved. The measure also shifts nuclear regulatory authority from the energy ministry to the Swiss parliament, where interminable delays are expected...