Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Bonnie Raitt spoke at Agassiz Theater last Friday as part of the Arts First week celebration, she trumpeted the Harvard she knew in the 1960s--a campus which thrived on activism and artistry, protest and politics, and above all else, awareness. What happened to that Harvard...
...defense contractors sell their aircraft to Latin American countries [WORLD, April 14]. Given the obvious fragility of the region, Latin America is the last place the U.S. should peddle its arms. People gape with horror when the Russians market high-tech warplanes to nations in troubled regions, yet few protest when America sells equally deadly technology. I hope the Defense Department will gape with the same horror if, in combat with an unstable Latin American nation, American planes encounter aircraft that are equally deadly (and American made). BRETT MACKELLAR Gaylord, Michigan
...beneath the lofty talk and the laudable action, a more talk and the laudable action, a more troubling political issue seems to be transpiring. While the 5,000 rallyers listened to President Clinton, several thousand more people gathered at another rally a number of miles away--this one to protest. According to Brian Becker, a coordinator of the National People's Campaign that is sponsoring a counter-conference to the Summit, "the [President's] summit is all hoopla and propaganda." Becker and the thousands that joined him claim that the President's conference and the campaign for which...
When he took part in a protest against Chinese rule in 1988, he was caught on film throwing stones at Chinese photographers and was forced to go into hiding when the government put a price on his head...
Bhakdo was released after he served his three year term. His sentence was the shortest of all the monks arrested in the protest, because...