Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast to what happened on the occasion of previous attacks on El Al-a skyjacking over the Mediterranean last July and an automatic-rifle assault in Athens in December-the international community this time was prompt in its protest. United Nations Secretary General U Thant described the attack as "criminal and dastardly." Britain, France, the Vatican and the U.S. issued condemnations. Washington also promised to raise the subject of protection of commercial aircraft at a council meeting this week of the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal...
...cold, waiting for a chance to express their sympathy with the lat est victim of the government's crack down on dissenters. This time the pris oner was a pretty 30-year-old blonde, Irina Belogorodskaya, whose crime consisted of having left her handbag, containing copies of a protest against the ar rest of a political dissident, in a taxi. The charge: "Preparing and distributing false fabrication defaming the Soviet state and social structure." It took the court only five hours to find her guilty and sen tence her to one year in a labor camp...
...inflammatory campus slogans, the message on the red-and-white buttons being passed out at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week seemed mild enough. Yet it symbolized the emergence of what may well be the most specialized protest group in the academic world today: university scientists and engineers...
Other nations have alcoholics, but Skid Row-urban colonies of alienated men-is strictly an American institution.*It was the first serious U.S. welfare problem and, in a way, one of its first social-protest movements; at least as much as the hippies, Skid Row inhabitants are dropouts from a society whose values they reject...
...present mess. His cynicism stems directly from his analysis of their situation. As he shows, us the university has become an industrial complex and nothing more. The real business of a university is business. Like any corporation -- or like the United States government -- it functions in spite of sporadic protest movements. If a university is stupid, like Columbia, it gets trapped into a confrontation with its students and comes off with a bad public relations image. If it behaves more strategically, as Harvard does, it avoids such situations. But these incidents are, in any case, relatively inconsequential. The university...