Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Agents for Cambridge's local painters union met with Harvard officials last week and agreed to temporarily end a three-week long picket of several campus buildings in protest of the practices of University-hired contractors, according to an agent for the union...
...union has maintained throughout the lastthree weeks that the target of their protest wasthe contractors and not the University. But Murphysaid yesterday that the union will turn itsattention to Harvard and picket again if nofavorable results emerge by mid-September, whenthe next meeting is scheduled...
...International Trade and Industry to build a satellite city for retired Japanese expatriates on Australia's east coast seems to have been shelved. When a Japanese company earlier this year bought Brisbane's Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, a ranking tourist attraction, 1,300 angry Gold Coasters jammed a protest meeting. Reported Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent Tsuneo Sugishita: "I was seized by the illusion that I was attending an anti-Japanese rally in a country at war with Japan...
...accidental U.S. downing of an Iranian Airbus on July 3, with the loss of 290 lives, may have figured indirectly in Iran's policy switch. For one thing, Tehran chose to protest the incident by sending its Foreign Minister before the U.N. Security Council, a forum that it had assiduously avoided since Resolution 598 was passed over its objections last July. For another, the shootdown gave relatively moderate political figures a chance to argue the futility of continuing a war that, they insisted, the U.S. would never permit Iraq to lose. That line of reasoning had emerged on previous occasions...
While Murphy stressed that for now the contractors are the cause of the protest, he added that Harvard has of late played a part in discouraging union workers...