Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basketball team, the Indiana Hoosiers, played under .500 in Big Ten competition for the first time in his 14-year reign as coach. Knight began to unravel. He benched his starters, dismissed his leading rebounder and, in a nationally televised game, he flung a chair across the court to protest the officiating. John Feinstein, a canny Washington Post columnist, focuses on the following season, when Knight veered even closer to the edge. Feinstein has no quarrel with the coach's leadership qualities, but they were far outweighed by his aggressions. Throughout the season Knight reviles the Hoosiers, throws them...
...Mexico's resilient population of 82 million has accepted the hardships heaped upon it. Recently, however, there have been signs that patience may be wearing thin. Last week more than 60,000 students and other demonstrators converged on the National Palace in Mexico City to protest a plan by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.) to tighten entrance requirements and increase annual tuition fees from an average of 10 cents to more than $90 a student. Speakers exhorted the government to stop payment on its crippling $100 billion foreign debt, demanded that workers receive hefty pay hikes to cope...
Emboldened by the turnout at earlier rallies, protest leaders called a strike at U.N.A.M.'s main campus in Mexico City that has prevented 400,000 registered students from attending classes since the end of January. Last week university officials agreed to submit all outstanding issues to arbitration...
...pouring rain did not deter several thousand Spanish students from taking to the streets of Madrid last week. Their purpose: to protest attempts by the Socialist government to tighten university admissions and academic standards. The march, one of the latest in a series of nationwide demonstrations, resulted from a deepening concern among students that the door may be closing on the accessibility of a university degree, the traditional path to a good job and financial security. "People study now who probably would have found work before," says High Schooler Raul Cabezas. "But because there is no work, what else...
...Western youths took on officialdom, thousands of Chinese students marched in December in Hefei, Shanghai and other cities to protest the slow pace of the government's economic reforms and to press for political liberalization. Some demonstrators told Western reporters they had been motivated by televised reports of rallies in France, the Philippines and South Korea, where students have protested against government repression for years. Last year alone, South Korean students held more than 1,700 demonstrations, including a rally at Kon- kuk University in October at which 1,288 students were arrested. The death last month of Park Jong...