Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a "guided democracy" (TIME, March 4), Sukarno's loudest and most effective support has come from the Communists. The President argued that he was riding a three-legged horse unless the Communists (among the top four votegetters in Indonesia) were included in the government, and over a protest of other parties, Sukarno appointed a clutch of Communists and fellow travelers to the National Cabinet, his new super-Cabinet...
Died. Nobile Giacomo de Martino, 89, veteran Italian diplomat, who served as post-World War I Ambassador to Berlin, London, Tokyo and the U.S. (1925-32); in Rome. His forceful protest against a personal attack on Mussolini by Major General Smedley D. Butler, U.S.M.C. (who accused II Duce of running over a child, called him a "hit-and-run driver") resulted in an apology from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson...
...Casbah. Hot-tempered students and war veterans ordered a general protest strike. Roaming the city in small commando units, some on motor scooters with girl friends behind, they forced shopkeepers out of stores, stopped buses and trolleys, ordering passengers to descend, poured into post offices, telling employees to quit or be beaten up. Police looked on. The riot fever reached its peak following the burial of Singer Carmen Ramos. Some 1,500 teen-agers started back to town after the ceremony, shouting "Algeria is French!"-"Death to the Assassins!" Joined by other Europeans-gangs of poor Italians and Spaniards from...
...child out. Then they dragged out the two men, beat them to death, and threw the bodies over the sea wall to the rocks 40 feet below. Then they lifted the Ford and dropped it over the cliff after them. Police, stoically watching this performance, brushed aside a protest by foreign newsmen that they stop the slaughter, said: "We haven't received orders." A French paratroop major who tried to intervene was slapped in the face by a uniformed Territorial private. Dazed and humiliated, the officer stumbled away, muttering: "Are these people worth saving...
...trustees by completely disassociating himself from fundraising. Finally, in one of the most publicized academic uproars of the time, he was forced to hand in his resignation in 1923. That commencement, 13 students flatly refused to accept their degrees, and eight professors and associate professors quit the college in protest...