Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end, when Indian shopkeepers and workers went on strike to protest the coup, Rabuka abolished trade unions. He simply ignored the Governor General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, the representative of Queen Elizabeth as Fiji's head of state, who declared a state of emergency to meet an "unprecedented situation which must not be allowed to continue...
...students vented their rage over a police raid earlier in the day that resulted in the arrest of 36 hunger strikers. At the municipal stadium a victory march by 3,500 students from Kyung Hee University to celebrate their baseball team's championship turned into a political protest...
...were students the only South Koreans involved in what amounts to a deepening confrontation with Chun's rule. A congregation of about 1,200, including 800 Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen, took part in an overnight prayer vigil for political reform at the Ahyun Methodist Church in downtown Seoul. About 40 participants had their heads shaved by amateur barbers as a sign of their determination to carry on the protest campaign. An estimated 750 riot police surrounded the church to prevent additional people from entering. Eventually, the police broke up the meeting with force, injuring 27 participants...
...Allred, an activist Los Angeles attorney, is that "judges, who want to allow the defense as much of a chance as possible, sometimes err on the side of the defendant by allowing the victim to be vigorously cross-examined." When they do, the only palliative seems to be public protest. The storm over Hanson's treatment last week led to a formal apology from the judge a few days later. With Atlas at her side, Hanson told reporters, "In the end justice worked and justice was done." It is nice she can forgive. Forgetting may be harder...
Most people regard a census as a minor nuisance. But in West Germany a national census scheduled to be completed on May 25 has become a cause for protest. The pro-environment Green Party, which won 8.3% of the vote in this winter's parliamentary elections, is leading a census-boycott movement under the slogan ONLY SHEEP ARE COUNTED...