Word: protested
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...take a tougher stand on the ethnic Russian question, Boris Yeltsin bluntly warned the Estonians not to misinterpret "Russia's goodwill." Moscow, he pointed out, had "ways of reminding them" of geopolitical realities. The Kremlin has already put the withdrawal of former Soviet forces from Estonia on hold to protest local mistreatment of Russians...
...regulations, deportations and gunboats to do so. The poor but eager migrants have become the main targets of murderous racial attacks on foreigners and xenophobic political movements in a dozen countries. With reception facilities overburdened, unemployment rates climbing to a national average of 10% and voters shouting in protest, Western governments are calling a halt. From Sweden in the north to Greece in the south, the Continent echoes with the sound of doors slamming shut...
...fallback choice to revive the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Before that he had been best- known as the leader of the Wilmington 10, a band of activists imprisoned for burning down a grocery store and conspiring to shoot at policemen during a 1971 civil rights protest in North Carolina. The convictions were thrown out by a federal judge in 1980 on the grounds that the testimony of prosecution witnesses had been coerced by police...
Clearly visible in the photograph, which ran on the front page of The Crimson, was the gallery's sign, which Brandenberg-Horn, in protest of a plan to close the gallery, had defaced to say, "Save the Sert Gallery Exhibition Program...
Goodrich has plenty of company. Last week, after thousands of entrepreneurs unleashed a torrent of protest letters and faxes on Capitol Hill, President Clinton scrambled to offer reassurance. "Unless we are firmly committed to small-business growth, we cannot succeed as a country," he said in a hurriedly arranged appearance before a group of small-company executives. His message did little to silence their gripes, most notably the complaint that provisions in the House and Senate tax bills designed to soak the rich will drown small enterprises. That is because about 80% of businesses in the U.S. pay taxes...