Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. There was a movie buried under all the pre- release protest. Now that ticket lines are replacing picket lines, Martin Scorsese's film can be seen as a full-bodied meditation on Jesus' humanity. And a terrific movie...
From the coal mines of Silesia, where the protest began the previous week, the strike movement last week reached the Lenin shipyard, Solidarity's birthplace in the Baltic port of Gdansk. For the second time in less than five months, militant young workers hoisted scarlet-and-white SOLIDARNOSC banners across the main entrance to the shipyard, while outside a cordon of militia swiftly sealed off the area. From inside the gates, a familiar face with walrus mustache addressed a crowd of cheering workers. "The most important demand is the revival of Solidarity," said Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lech Walesa...
...more determined that Mandela should get the finest medical care than South Africa's highest officials, who fear that he might die in jail and set off an explosion of violent protest in the country's black townships. Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee, who oversees the prison system, made a point of visiting Mandela at Tygerberg. Minister of Health Willem van Niekerk sent regular bulletins from the doctors to State President P.W. Botha. In reply to a worried letter from the Rev. Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Botha assured him, "We are even more concerned...
...protesters insisted that Atlanta authorities had reneged on an agreement not to press charges of trespassing after the activists blocked access to an abortion clinic. Their sympathizers held new demonstrations, and more arrests followed. The Rev. Jerry Falwell flew to Atlanta to give a $10,000 check to Operation Rescue, the group that organized the protest. Falwell said he might return to get arrested; if he does, his identity should not be difficult to determine...
From Mandalay in the central plain to Moulmein on the Andaman Sea, Burma burst into flames last week, the spark provided by protest and bloodshed, the oxygen by rumor. In Sagaing, a city of 70,000 in the center of the country, security forces opened up with shotguns on a crowd of 5,000 that was converging on a police station, and 31 people were reported killed. In the suburbs of Rangoon, the capital, three policemen were reported to have been beheaded by enraged mobs. Word of mutinies by military units in the north and east flickered through the country...