Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disc Jockey Dave Willlford suggested on radio station WBSM in New Bedford, Mass., that his listeners should march on city hall to protest recent increases in property taxes that in some cases amounted to 100%. Last week about 4,000 angry taxpayers mobbed the city's downtown for four hours, scrambling up scaffolding at the city hall, clambering on top of the mayor's limousine and waving signs reading DON'T PAY TAXES! Despite two arrests, the demonstrators refused to disperse until Mayor John Markey appeared at a second-floor window and said he sympathized with them...
...added that no extra security measures will be taken because of the protest...
President Carter will speak in Lynn City Hall Square this afternoon to campaign for Democratic candidates seeking state-wide offices, while demonstraters, including some Harvard students, gather to protest administration policy in South Africa...
Rothschild said the demonstrators will demand that the U.S. sever diplomatic ties with South Africa. They will also protest the actions of Andrew Young, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who has voted five times to veto a Security Council measure which would impose economic sanctions on South Africa...
...demonstrators will also protest against President Carter for letting Ian Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia, into the U.S., Rothschild added...