Word: protested
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Determined to prove the new government cannot rule, the Campaign for Democracy, a human-rights group leading the opposition, brought the boisterous city of Lagos (pop. 6 million) to a standstill for the second time in three weeks by calling a stay-at-home protest. The Nigerian Labor Congress announced a general strike by its 4 million members, including oilworkers, starting Saturday. Both groups say they will keep demonstrating until Abiola, who vowed to return to Lagos this week and begin consultations to form a new government, is sworn in as President...
...have followed along. Janet Jackson flaunts a white-shell-and- silver Mummy's Bundle choker on her new videos. On MTV, the veejays are decked out in silver and bone. Angelique Bianca, guitarist for a group called -- what else? -- the Indians, wears the jewelry as a form of environmental protest. "The earth is being raped," she says. "The truth is that we have to go back to the earth...
...boisterous, sprawling metropolis of more than 6 million, stood empty and silent. Businesses were shuttered, railway and bus transport brought to a standstill, the normally congested streets deserted. Thousands of police and riot-control troops out on patrol had the silent city to themselves. Citizens were staying home to protest the ruling military's refusal to hand over power to the man elected President on June 12 in the freest, fairest balloting in three decades. For a people accustomed to rule by force, the three-day strike was a brazen act of defiance...
...city shut down by protest threatens a dictator...
Like George Kenney, who resigned as the State Department's Yugoslav affairs officer in August 1992 to protest George Bush's supine Bosnia policy, Harris could not stomach Clinton's inaction "against genocide and the Serbs who perpetrate it." Now that the U.S. is ready to send in the Air Force, it would seem an odd time for a dramatic stand. But not to Harris, who considers the Administration's role a tawdry sellout...