Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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March President Johnson, in an effort to cut spending "in distant lands," proposes state-hood for South Vietnam. Four Southeast Asian Chiefs of state protest vigorously. In separate incidents, all disappear while swimming...
There have been no mass protest movements, no major street demonstrations, no successful civil-disobedience campaigns. While some terrorism exists, it is sporadic and isolated. The Israelis have made it almost impossible for any Arab to be a terrorist for very long...
Japanese students rioted by the tens of thousands in 1960 over the renewal of the U.S. mutual security treaty, and the nation's press egged them on with inflammatory stories and editorials. Last October the students once again took to the streets to protest Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's trip to Viet Nam. But if history repeated itself, the press did not. It reported the rioting with obvious distress and admonished the students to restrain themselves. Said Asahi, Japan's biggest daily: "The students have forgotten that a social movement will not get on the right track...
Aroused to Challenge. If U.S. police officials sometimes suspect Communist influence behind student protests, it comes as no surprise that Communist leaders in Czechoslovakia saw "capitalist agitators" behind a protest march by students of the Technical University of Prague. Actually, they were merely fed up with continual breakdowns in heating and lighting on their campus, caused mainly by rats chewing through electrical insulation...
...subsequent conversations, the priest urged the murderer to turn him self in and refused him absolution until he did so. The youth would not. Bound by canon law to observe the church's tradition that nothing said in confession may ever be disclosed, the priest was helpless to protest publicly. Yet in the next four years, three more chil dren in the Langenberg area were abducted and killed in much the same manner as the first...