Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remained a question how long the Egyptians could keep it up. Sixty percent of canal tolls are still being paid to the old Canal Co. accounts in London and Paris or to blocked accounts elsewhere. U.S. ships have been paying most of what the Egyptians have been collecting-under protest. Skeptical insurance firms hiked rates for ships transiting Suez by 150%. Lloyd's of London reported at least a dozen ships diverted from Suez to make the long voyage around the Cape. One bad slip and the canal could be closed for days...
...users' plan of the Western powers seemed truly to catch Nasser unawares. "Instead of continuing the game," the tennis-playing young dictator complained to a friend, "Eden has picked up the ball and walked off the court." In uncharacteristic haste Nasser ordered his Washington ambassador to protest to John Foster Dulles that the plan "means war"-just as Dulles was about to explain to his press conference that that was precisely what it did not mean. Then, in his first important-if insufficient-shift toward compromise, Nasser let it be known through the Indian government that he would...
...farm town of Mansfield, Negro students slated to enroll in the high school were scared off when whites hung a Negro dummy over the entrance. Governor Allan Shivers piously announced he would not use state police power "to shoot down or intimidate Texas citizens who are making orderly protest against [school desegregation.]" But in Clinton, Tenn., where Governor Frank Clement dispatched National Guardsmen to quell shouting, stone-throwing rioters, Negroes by week's end were still in mixed classrooms, and the guardsmen were beginning to leave. In western Kentucky armed mobs roamed through the mining towns of Sturgis...
...trouble started in East Pakistan, the tropical province separated from the rest of Pakistan by nearly 1,000 miles of Indian territory. Early last week thousands of angry peasants poured into the East Pakistan capital of Dacca to protest against persistent food shortages that have almost doubled the price of rice in the last two months. When the crowd swelled to 15,000, Dacca's police opened fire "in self-defense." The riots kept on for two days, and finally, after five rioters had been killed and two leading politicos smeared with filth by the mob, East Pakistan...
...Carville inmates decided to fight. Angry protest meetings were held. The Patients' Federation drafted a 2,500-word letter of complaint to PHS headquarters, sent a lawyer with it to Washington. Last week the patients won a clear-cut victory. PHS decided to shift Dr. Gordon, 52, to his 20th assignment...