Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian assurance -and the continuing presence of some 50,000 Soviet troops in the country-many Czechoslovaks remain unimpressed and openly rebellious. Some 100,000 students staged nationwide three-day sit-ins to protest some of the executive committee's Russian-imposed decisions. Workers supported the students' defiance with short work stoppages. Members of Czechoslovakia's eleven cultural associations met to declare "more urgently than before" their concern for the "preservation of the humane character of our socialist life...
...expel third-year students who fail twice. Probably egged on by the violent Moslem Brotherhood, some 5,000 Mansoura high school boys, aged 14 to 17, went on a rampage against the decree. They were later joined by nonstudents, who turned the demonstration into a full-dress political protest with cries of "Down with Nasser!" When the mob marched on police headquarters, police opened fire at point-blank range, killing one blind high school student and three nonstudents...
...scene, the President ordered the arrest of left-leaning Opposition Leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. But the un rest continued, and last week, in one of Pakistan's most turbulent periods since independence in 1947, thousands of angry citizens, mostly students, surged through the streets virtually every day in protest against Ayub's rule...
...police were generally restrained, but occasionally used tear gas and let fly with their lathis, or steel-tipped bamboo poles. In Rawalpindi, 20,000 students marched for seven hours, shouting "Death to Ayub!" and "Bhutto zin-dabad!" (Long live Bhutto.) It was the largest protest in the capital since Ayub came to power ten years ago. The crowd was peaceful at first, but then attacked two pro-government newspaper offices...
Heffner acted after almost all of Brown and Pembroke's 85 black students walked out of the university yesterday to protest Heffner's previous rejection of an 11 per cent quota. He met throughout the day with university officials, and released a detailed plan last night...