Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daily Asahi Shimbun reported that support for Nakasone has dropped over the past three months from 39% to 25%. And in cities around the country, leftist unions have joined hands with conservative shopkeepers to braid hangmen's nooses that are used on effigies of the Prime Minister in protest demonstrations...
...what you might call a summer/dead-of-winter romance. He was a Chilean ballet director; she a toothless, crippled hag worth millions. But he loved her, he said. So when she ripped up her will and wrote out a new one leaving everything to him, he did not think to protest...
More than 200 students at the University of Michigan yesterday ended a 24-hour blockade of an administration building. The protest was intended to focus attention on the prejudice that Blacks and other minority students face on the Ann Arbor campus...
...Black student groups involved in the protest--the Black Action Movement (BAM) and the United Coalition Against Racism (UCAR)--are demanding that the university follow through on its unkept 1970 promise to increase Black enrollment to 10 percent. Blacks currently compose about 6 percent of the student body...
...radicals are now shifting toward a less violent, if no less confrontational, approach to political action. They responded to police tear gas last week with balloons bearing anti-Chun slogans, rather than with bricks and fire bombs. "The people hate the government, but they are afraid of violence," one protest leader said. In their new mood, the students are seeking alliances with the New Korea Democratic Party, the chief opposition force. "They criticized us for being too pro-American, and would not work with us," says Dissident Kim, a powerful party mentor. "Now they are willing to take a more...