Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subpoena led to a controversy about the extent of the Gotliebs' diplomatic immunity and the American court's apparent infringement on it. The State Department's Department of Protocol eventually sided with the Canadian government's protest over the subpoena...
Though police arrested 10 of the protesters and slightly injured two others in the action against what had become known as "Tent City," about 20 protest veterans returned this weekend to the plot of land where the enclave stood. From the site, it is easy to see the skeleton of MIT's 27-acre University Park development which the campers gathered to protest last year...
...group erected a model of an octopus that it uses to symbolize MIT, but did not try to build anything more permanent on the land this time, Stewart said. He said MIT did not try to stop the protest...
...Stores are open, tea shops are busy, and hopelessly overcrowded buses lumber unsteadily through the streets. But the mood is sullen. "We are like a dormant volcano: calm on the outside, boiling inside," says a government worker. A group of monks has circulated a leaflet calling for a peaceful protest this week unless the generals set up an interim civilian government, and there were reports that some monks had been arrested. A 9-p.m.-to-4-a.m. curfew is strictly enforced. Prices have risen by 100% or more on most goods. Gasoline is in short supply; filling stations are under...
...team also had to deal with racial strife. John Tyson, the Crimson's All-Ivy defensive back, decided to sit out the 1968 season as a protest of Harvard's policies toward Blacks...