Word: protested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Previous federal court orders required that the parade's organizers include gay and lesbian groups. But by calling this year's event a protest march, organizers have circumvented the earlier court decision...
...sooner had Conoco announced the contract than voices of protest mounted, both in the Clinton Administration and in the Du Pont corporation itself. While Conoco's deal did not represent a violation of American law (the oil from the fields was not to be brought into the United States) it did constitute a gross violation of the spirit' of American policy Vis-a-vis the Islamic regime in Iran...
...President may protest too much. The evidence of his marginalization is as much a matter of presumption as fact, but that is no less of a problem for him. The Ottawa exchange highlighted Clinton's re-election quandary: his first opponent is not a Republican, not even an upstart Demo-crat; it is the perception of his own irrelevance. Though Clinton's job-approval ratings have hovered near respectability in recent months, a large chunk of the electorate doesn't think he can win in 1996; almost half, in one poll, believes the country would be better...
...mainstream. The heavily footnoted articles in the Regent University Law Review cite Scripture as well as legal precedent. And one of them, at least, crossed the line between legal and criminal opinion. In 1994 ACLJ lawyer Michael Hirsh, who was representing antiabortion activist Paul Hill in an abortion-protest case, submitted an article to the review that justified killing abortion doctors. The piece was approved and scheduled for publication--until the day Hill murdered two people outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic; then the article was yanked, and Hirsh was fired several months later. The uproar caught Regent Law School...
...Interior Minister Charles Pasqua summoned U.S. Ambassador Pamela Harriman to his office to protest the spying. At a second meeting Feb. 10, he demanded that the five CIA officers leave the country immediately. Working their contacts in the French intelligence services, senior CIA officials were assured that the matter would be dealt with behind closed doors. The two countries' spy agencies have had fierce battles over economic secrets, ``but when we fight wars together or life-and-death issues like terrorism, we work closely with the French,'' said a former CIA official...