Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...casually asked a colleague whether he was a member, and the colleague said he had been but had resigned. That seemed very high- toned and impressive, but the essayist is not a member, and it would seem excessive to join an organization solely to resign from it in protest. The colleague then explained that his wife had given him no peace on the subject, and he valued peace. So now would he go to lunch there if another member invited him? Sure. Would he go to lunch at a club that barred blacks? No. "What's the difference?" the essayist...
...sent by Spain through Portugal after Madrid made direct shipments to Iran illegal in September 1986. Lisbon claims the Spaniards must have known what was going on, as many of the munitions shipped falsely to Portugal could not have been used in Portuguese weapons. Portugal has made a protest to Madrid. In addition, the respected Madrid daily El Pais has charged the Spanish government with selling $280 million of ammunition and military equipment to Iran since 1983, often using phony papers that listed Libya and Syria as buyers. The government denies the charges...
...names of the casualties filtered through the division's headquarters on Manhattan's West 57th Street, a mixture of anger and shock gripped employees. Rather refused to help pick those who should be laid off, and an anonymous letter circulated through the building urging a walkout to protest the cutbacks -- and to show support for the news writers, who struck CBS and ABC last week. (NBC's employees belong to another union.) Negotiations for a new contract collapsed when the networks insisted on greater flexibility in firing workers and hiring more temporary employees; during the walkout, news scripts are being...
...youths are more open in their attacks on the U.S. They blame Americans for the Allied division of the Korean peninsula after World War II. Their chief complaint, though, is that Washington supports the dictatorial Chun government. "Without getting rid of the foreign influence of the Americans," one protest leader says, "we cannot restore democracy to Korea." A computer- science major at Seoul National University puts it simply, "We think of America as the most moral government in the world, and yet it backs this immoral Chun government. Why doesn't America support democracy here...
...newly formed committee for Peace and Freedom in Iran, which its 10 to 15 members called "a group of Iranians in exile," organized the protest and handed out leaflets, asking citizens to urge the government to "impose a real military boycott on both sides of the conflict...