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...World War II than on a U.S.-Soviet rivalry that bristles with nuclear weapons, many of them based on European soil. In Western Europe, some of that sentiment has flowed into the pacifist and antinuclear movement that brought thousands of people into the streets two years ago to protest the deployment of U.S. -built nuclear Pershing II and cruise missiles as a counter-force to a Soviet buildup of medium-range SS-20s. The era of mammoth demonstrations seems to have passed, but a pacifist current remains. With the notable exception of France, it has penetrated the main opposition parties...
...issues stirring the most activism on campus are South Africa, Central America, the CIA, the threat of nuclear war and proposed federal budget cuts in education. Of these, South Africa has engendered the widest protest, a movement inspired by the continuing arrests of demonstrators outside the South African embassy in Washington. Among the campuses, Berkeley and Columbia, two seed-beds of '60s radicalism, are once again leading the march. At Columbia, which has $33 million invested in concerns doing business in South Africa, the blockade of Hamilton Hall has continued more than two weeks. At Berkeley, mass rallies were triggered...
...University last week, some 250 students and faculty demonstrated against the presence of a Playboy magazine representative shopping for willing student bodies for a picture spread called "Girls of the PAC-10." At the University of Texas at Austin, 2,000 students marched to the state capitol building to protest a proposed tuition hike. The Reagan Administration's proposed 20% cut in student loans and grants, which has stimulated protests, also seems to have catalyzed more general student dissent and discontent...
...during the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, and that Tokyo must make a "genuine" apology. Diplomatic ties between the two countries were normalized by a treaty 40 years ago, yet Roh touched a still-raw nerve. One man threw himself off a bridge to protest Japan's claim on the tiny island the Koreans call Tokdo (the Japanese know it as Takeshima), while a mother and son lopped off the ends of their little fingers and threatened to send the bits of flesh to Prime Minister Koizumi. Meanwhile, Roh's popularity rating has rebounded recently...
...assumes, plainclothes police?some 400 worshippers paraded down a quiet lane to the courtyard bearing candles and a memorial photograph of the deceased pontiff. During mass, they wept, prayed and lined up for communion. Authorities made no attempt to stop them. "As long as we don't protest or set off firecrackers, we're basically left alone," says Father Benedictus...