Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...element in judging students for admission to universities. It thus approved the principle of "affirmative action," the system by which the Government is pressuring U.S. universities, corporations and other institutions to provide more jobs and better pay for millions of blacks, other minorities and women. Despite a flurry of protest demonstrations by militants, most observers praised the court for a cautious but astute effort at reconciling conflicting forces?but they also foresaw many future conflicts in the actual carrying out of the court's new edict...
Last week, however, in a decision that might have brought louder cries of protest from journalists had they not been so busy covering the Bakke ruling, the Supreme Court said that the press has no more First Amendment rights to enter a public facility than does any private citizen. "The right to receive ideas and information is not the issue," wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger. "The issue is a claimed special privilege of access which," the court went on, "is not essential to guarantee the freedom to communicate or publish...
Union members walked off their jobs yesterday in protest of a bill currently in the state House of Representatives that would take out of the Carmen's contracts the guaranteed cost-of-living increases now given at the expiration of each union contract...
...defense counsel. But when Judge Barbaro read the verdict, as more than 800 carabinieri and other police ringed the courthouse, the defendants were absent from the steel-barred cage in which they had been kept during the proceedings. They had all elected to remain in their cells as a protest against what they called a "court of the regime...
...Brussels and agreed to put up at least $70 million to rescue the Zaïrian government of President Mobutu Sese Seko from bankruptcy during the next three months under a stringent formula that British Foreign Secretary David Owen called "a monitorable plan for economic assistance." After some earlier protest, Mobutu now seemed ready to accept a few restrictive conditions on how he spends Zaïre's money. Mobutu is also expected to seek increased military assistance from the West. At week's end, Zaïrian intelligence sources claimed that Katangese rebels have again begun massing...