Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MEMBERS OF THE Southern Africa Solidarity Committee this week released a 35-page report striving to justify the protest which lead to the premature ending of a South African consul's speech last month. I wanted to question SASC on statements in the report, but I thought that requests for interviews would be refused by SASC, a non-hierarchical organization which would not let any member assume a leadership position in the public's eyes. Under pressure to produce copy, I used the report itself to make up an interview...
...members of Congress expressed bipartisan outrage, President Reagan ordered Secretary of State George Shultz to protest the Soviet penetration of the U.S. embassy directly to Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze when the two begin talks this week on a treaty to eliminate intermediate-range missiles in Europe. The President also set in motion half a dozen seemingly redundant investigations into embassy security...
...half in protest because we were Union dorm'ed," Grossman said, referring to her Pennypacker housing assignment...
...shopping in the comfort of my own home. Not from the Home Shopping Club, as a matter of protest, but from catalogs. The Star Market catalog is particularly good. It lets me do all my grocery shopping over the phone. Most of the food is rotten by the time it gets to my house, but they have a great deal on Windex...
...everyone, however, has been delighted with McDonald's hamburger imperialism. In the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, where McDonald's has 16 outlets, hundreds of local restaurant owners and tavernkeepers marched through the streets last May to protest the incursion of American junk food, shouting, "Down with hamburgers!" and "Long live the corner bar!" Despite such friction, McDonald's plans to open 200 foreign outlets this year...