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Word: protestation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saundra Graham is a tried and true progressive.She is the cutting edge of political change. She broke up the 1970 Harvard Commencement to protest Harvard expansion which threatened local residents. She stood beside members of HUCTW during their strike and their fight to unionize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All politics is local. Saundra Graham is a local politician. All politics is Saundra Graham. | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

During most of the protest, the Fly Club did not open its front door, forcing partygoers to enter through the side door normally reserved for women...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: SWAT Protests Outside Fly Club Punching Party | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...Cambridge State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70's first encounters with Saundra Graham occurred during his last moments as a Harvard undergraduate, when Graham and a group of her supporters broke up Commencement to protest Harvard's expansion into the Riverside neighborhood...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Trying to Hold On | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Family planners have hailed RU 486 as a safer, less expensive way to end unwanted pregnancies, but right-to-life groups fear that it could make abortions commonplace. Roussel officials say that much of the protest against the pill came from U.S. abortion foes like Dr. John Willke, president of the U.S. National Right to Life Committee. Willke charges that RU 486 can cause birth defects if it fails to induce an abortion. "It may be a chemical time bomb," he asserts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: About Face Over An Abortion Pill | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...Republicans are too adept at playing racial politics. The Democrats ceded their hold on the George Wallace crowd when they declared war on Jim Crow back in the 1960s, and the Republicans have accepted them into the fold without protest. House Republican leader Robert Michel (III.) made that clear when he noted that Reagan Democrats would defect to Bush when they "look at the Democratic convention out there and see the one-third Blacks in that composition of delegates...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: The Presidential Campaign in Black and White | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

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