Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down in a new determination to preserve his throne (see box), the Shah was inexplicably absent from the ceremonies and failed to take the customary salute. Nonetheless, for the first time in the past two months, the capital appeared to have recovered a semblance of normality. Sporadic violence and protest demonstrations persisted in some outlying provinces; in the northeastern city of Mashhad, three people by official account -13 according to anti-Shah sources -were killed when troops fired on demonstrators. But most of the country's striking workers went back to their jobs, including employees of Iran...
...where he starred in eight spaghetti westerns, and was arrested again in an anti-Viet Nam demonstration. During the 1960s, Reed also made several triumphant tours of the Soviet Union. Audiences there were impressed by his boyish good looks, syrupy baritone and eclectic repertoire of folk, rock and mellow protest songs. He soon had a huge following of Soviet fans, who considered him a "typically American performer...
More than 250 people gathered at the Karen Silkwood Memorial Rally in Boston last night to demand an end to nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and to protest circumstances surrounding the death of Silkwood...
...neighboring Maryland, the state Democratic administration had also been scarred by corruption. The Governor himself-Marvin Mandel, was found guilty and forced out of office. One of his cabinet members, Transportation Secretary Harry Hughes, 51, quit in May 1977 in protest against an attempt to meddle with Baltimore subway contracts. Hughes, once so obscure that he was described as "a lost ball in long grass," in September upset Mandel's successor, Acting Governor Blair Lee III. Last week, Hughes' fresh face was too much for for mer Republican Senator J. Glenn Beall Jr., who had difficulty explaining...
...Information Department had illegally financed the start of a pro-government Johannesburg daily, the Citizen, and allegations of personal abuse of the fund amounting to millions of dollars. To angry opposition members of Parliament, the judge's ouster amounted to an attempted cover-up of Pretoria's "Watergate." In protest, they refused to accept appointments to a special bipartisan investigative body. Indeed, there is intense pressure on Botha within his own party not to suppress such evidence...