Word: protester
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Moscow's lingering chagrin over Svetlana Alliluyeva's defection may have been mitigated somewhat last week by the spectacle of four earnest young Americans describing to Russian audiences their desertion from the aircraft carrier Intrepid as a protest against the Viet Nam war. "They're playing it big," sighed a U.S. official. Twice aired on Soviet television and displayed in Pravda, the self-proclaimed "patriotic deserters" were in Moscow in transit to a neutral country where they might "give all our strength to the struggle against the immoral, inhuman...
...problems-and pointedly barred whites from the meeting. And at times a largely symbolic action seems to be self-defeating. The decision of 120 Negro students, among them some 65 athletes, to boycott the 1968 Olympic Games is a case in point. They considered their act a sign of protest against the denial of Negro rights in general. However, some Negroes among the many who have won fame and fortune in U.S. athletics thought that the youngsters had picked the wrong field. Said Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics: "There is no place...
Even for Saigon, a city that has seen all manner of demonstrations, it was an unusual protest. Into Workers Union Headquarters last week marched 200 perfumed professionals, representatives of the 50,000 bar girls and taxi dancers who make their living by catering to the loneliness of the American G.I. They were distressed by the threat of the reform-minded government of Nguyen Van Thieu to close down saigon's 160 cabarets and 47 dance halls. Unless their livelihoods were protected, they said, they would take to the streets like the Buddhists in opposition to the government...
...violence. At midweek, the Hong Kong government backed down by cutting the devaluation to a mere 5.7%. In Malaysia, which took the curious step of devaluing its old, but still circulating, sterling-backed currency though not its new gold-backed dollar, eight were killed and 137 hurt when a protest demonstration erupted into a furious battle between Chinese and Malays in Penang. The Government feared that, with Communists doing all they could to take advantage of the situation, the disturbances might spread across the country...
Wayne M. Hansen, co-editor of the Avatar, said that yesterday's free distribution was a protest against the obscenity charges and Cambridge's arrest of two Avatar salesmen for selling without a license on Tuesday. Jessie B. Lyman, a writer for the Avatar, said, "The 11th issue [which was banned in Boston] wasn't obscene, so we made the next two obscene in defiance...