Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatly worsened by Carter's sudden normalization of relations with Moscow's rivals in Peking. It took another downturn last week when Soviet advisers were reported to have played a role in the Shootout that killed the U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan. The State Department sent a sharp protest to the Soviets. Despite these strains, Carter has assigned top priority to concluding the long delayed SALT II and meeting with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev...
...Tehran Sullivan initially reinforced the policy of his predecessor, former CIA Director Richard Helms, that embassy staffers should avoid contact with the Shah's opposition. Sullivan later reversed that position when the dimensions of the protest became apparent. American businessmen in Iran have found the silver-thatched envoy approachable and friendly, but many complain that he kept them in the dark about U.S. plans and perceptions. One of Sullivan's own insights was oddly prescient. After taking over the embassy in June 1977, he was asked about parallels between Tehran and Vientiane. His reply: "We ran Laos...
...Sens' Interview with Ivan Shusikov has his unmistakeable signature: Day At the Office shown last weekend used exactly the same background. It seems to be part of his protest against the Canadian bureaucracy. In this interview, a disembodied voice welcomes to Canada a Russian dissident filmmaker, who hides behind a desk throughout the interview. He is afraid to answer the interviewer's questions about the political reception of his films at home, and their commercial reception in Canada where distributors have refused it "because they might have to buy Canadian short films then too." Shusikov scuttles at last...
...wake of the April 1969 student strike as a student-Faculty committee to discipline political demonstrators, the CRR was boycotted by undergraduates from 1970 to 1977. Although the boycott began more because student members of the committee felt personally uncomfortable disciplining fellow students than because of organized protest, the boycott quickly became an expression of student dissatisfaction with the CRR's structure and procedures...
Lisa A. Blank, a junior, said yesterday that she did not expect students to protest the increase. "You know how it goes. Everyone will just sit back and take it," she said...