Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call letters were RNI, for Radio NewYork International. The studio was a rusted 150-foot fishing ship, rechristened Sarah, anchored off Long Island just outside the U.S. three-mile territorial limit. The idea was to get beyond the Federal Communications Commission's reach to protest the "stale" sounds offered by licensed New York stations. The pirate broadcasts stopped last week, after four days, when Coast Guardsmen and FCC agents, citing an . international treaty prohibiting broadcasts aboard ships outside national territories, boarded the Sarah and arrested Chief Engineer Alan Weiner and Disk Jockey Ivan Rothstein. The two were released pending...
...that caught its American protectors unprepared. Jumbo military transports belatedly began ferrying minesweeping helicopters from Norfolk, Va. A Navy helicopter trying to land on the command ship of the task force crashed, with four Americans presumed dead. And the whole region was on edge in the wake of a protest by Iranian pilgrims that turned into a bloodbath in the Saudi Arabian holy city of Mecca. The week's events reminded a twitchy U.S. of the very real risks that come with flying the flag in far-flung corners of the world...
...bold was Husband No. 4 Peter Holm, 40, a onetime Swedish pop star who, after being kicked out of their former home, picketed Collins in protest. JOAN, YOU HAVE OUR $2.5 MILLION, 13,000-SQ.-FT. HOME WHICH WE BOUGHT FOR CASH DURING OUR MARRIAGE, read his long-winded placard. I AM NOW HOMELESS. HELP...
...courtroom drama, complete with sharp lawyers shredding hapless witnesses on live television; then the committees complain that America has been captivated by a witness's manner instead of concentrating on his words and deeds. Can't have it both ways. Turn an inquiry into a spectacle and you cannot protest that the audience is insufficiently attentive to the transcript. The Iran-contra committees could have modestly pursued their business off-camera, as did the Tower commission. No secrecy necessary -- the entire record could have been made public at the close of the investigation. Then there would have been no Ollie...
When trying to solicit funds, student organizations at the richest university in the land often hear expressions of protest from potential givers: "Why are you asking me for money? You guys are rich," or "I gave to Harvard already...