Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electoral law, Russians protest, will exclude 80,000 to 100,000 of them from voting in Estonia's first competitive elections in December. Another law makes it necessary for all people to speak Estonian (as different from Russian as Hungarian is from English) to get a job. Though Russians have four years to comply, they protest angrily that there are not enough teachers or textbooks available for all of them to learn...
Last month 35,000 to 40,000 Russians went on strike to protest those laws. Though the walkouts have been suspended, strike leaders still meet three times a week to prepare for a possible resumption. "The strikes are a strong influence on the government to revise the laws," said factory worker Vladimir Shorikin. Igor Shepelevich, director of a computer-chip plant, explained that new strikes could pretty well close down Estonia. "The republic's railroads, airports, seaports and power systems are all run by Russians," he pointed out. In Moldavia recent strikes by Russians left tomatoes rotting in fields...
...Young Report, which sparked protest from students, alumni and some overseers last year, called on the University to mail letters to alumni endorsing the official Harvard candidates for the 30-member governing board. In addition, under the new guidelines, independently nominated candidates--like Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, who was successfully nominated by HRAAA last year--would be listed separately from official candidates on the ballot...
Cambridge cleared its officers of harassment, calling their action "professional and appropriate," and the question clearly became, appropriate for whom? For which race? For the 500 galvanized into protest that week, the answer was clear, as it was for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and University Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner, who apologized to the students and appealed to Cambridge and the police. But again, the police have not responded...
...when the student body rallied to the cause of gays and lesbians in protest of the military's discrimination, the contest of values took on broader terms. ROTC advocates realized this when they adapted the campaign slogan, "Tolerance for everyone." But that was only a superficial acknowledgment of the underlying principle...