Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy's lax grip on leadership of the Poor People's Campaign has been steadily slipping away. Last week his hold relaxed to the point of paralysis. While Resurrection City afforded Washington an unseemly display of backbiting and verbal pyromania, the protest movement's leaders purged the man who, above all, might have given their faltering cause realistic direction...
Clashes & Prayers. Obeying instructions from underground resistance organizations and Cairo broadcasts, the Arab population in Israeli-occupied territory staged protest strikes and demonstrations, closed their schools and shops for a day, and prayed for their dead. But for the most part, they avoided head-on encounters with Israeli police and occupation forces...
From the barricaded buildings of Rome University to Britain's Porton Down Microbiological Research Center, the protests of those revolutionaries continued to agitate Western Europe last week. British students held a lie-in demonstration at the chemical center, also shoved their way past campus "bulldog" proctors to demand, and win, the right to distribute freely pamphlets at Oxford. In Rome, where they began their protest by setting fire to an effigy of Charles de Gaulle, some 2,000 students held the campus until moderate students, anxious to finish exams, and armed police stormed it. The Italian Communist Party, through...
...Germany's outmoded penal code in a century. Ironically, Social Democrats got no thanks from the West German voters, who seem to give the credit for the Grand Coalition's successes to the Christian Democrats. In fact, by joining the government, the Social Democrats have sacrificed the protest vote, which has ominously shifted mainly to the far-right National Democrats. In the past 15 months, the Social Democrats have lost ground in six successive state elections, slipping to a bare 29% of the vote in the most recent test in Baden-Württemberg...
...grandson of Lutheran ministers, Fry was born in Bethlehem, Pa., and attended Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Airy, Pa., where he proved to be something of a campus rebel by leading a student protest for curriculum reform. Ordained in 1925, he spent 15 years as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Akron, resigning in 1944 to become president of the United Lutheran Church, a predecessor of the L.C.A...