Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispatch of 50,000 troops. These could be obtained without any special call-ups by robbing France's already skeletonized NATO forces. General Augustin Guillaume, chief of the French general staff, who as Morocco's Resident General dethroned Sultan Ben Youssef two years ago, resigned in protest. He was replaced by General Paul Ely, whose name to Frenchmen unfortunately calls up the last despairing days of Indo-China...
...accounts agreed that the episode started as a protest by students of Fermin Toro high school in Caracas (pop. 1,000,000) against the sudden switch of examinations from the usual period in July to February. High-spiritedly, the teen-agers marched off toward the Ministry of Education. Almost any mild measure would presumably have stopped them, but the police-minded government of President Marcos Pérez Jimenez sent well-armed cops. Angered and insulted by student insolence, the police attacked with sabers and (according to some accounts) fired on the shrieking school kids. An army officer arrived...
Thereafter demonstrations of protest-this time aimed at the regime itself-spread to schools all over Venezuela. Students wrecked laboratories and stoned policemen. Medical students at the National University in Caracas, who also work as hospital interns, spread word of wards crowded with wounded youngsters. At one point they ran up on a flagpole what they said was the bloody dress of the slain girl. The police cracked down by arresting teenagers, teachers and protesting parents...
...deviationist" son Leon Jr., who died mysteriously after an operation in Paris in 1938? It seemed, however, that Mme. Trotsky felt she was challenging Moscow chiefly for the sake of the record. Said she of Khrushchev & Co.: "What can you expect from people who refused to protest either Stalin's theories or his horrible acts so long as he was supreme...
After Korn resigned, his entire slate of officers as well as the rest of the minority walked out of the meeting in protest against what Korn called "a plot" to defeat the "independence of the group...