Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Europe. 1959's changes mostly reflect what the optimists call "creative abdication" of empire and the pessimists call retreat. But to the surprise of many, including the participants, an independence movement that begins as a protest against the West, taking help where it can find it, often ends by discovering that its freedom has to be as jealously maintained against another outsider...
Shortly after the Festival announced its invitational policy, an Open Competition Committee formed to channel the opposition. When no change was forthcoming, the group decided to sponsor a protest show, located in the nearby Universalist Meeting House on Charles Street...
...contest was all over. That afternoon, as Erhard walked into a special party meeting, his colleagues slapped him on the back and gave him a standing ovation, crying "Good old Ludwig." When Erhard rose to protest, "I feel deeply hurt by events that occurred during my absence," Adenauer gripped his arm and said: "It was never my intention to belittle your great qualities." Mumbled Erhard: "I am satisfied...
...storm of protest against Fidel Castro's confiscatory agrarian-reform law * rolled into the acoustic-walled Cabinet room in Havana's presidential palace one night last week and brought on the first major split in the Cuban revolution. From 9 p.m. until 2 a.m., ministers snapped at each other across the oval mahogany table. For five of his 20 ministers, Castro had short, blunt rebukes...
Small-Holder Protest. Outside the Cabinet, Castro fought for his law with threats, cajolery and left-wing bombast. "Land reform will not be stopped even if the sky rains spikes," he angrily told the National Newsmen's Association. In the Havana Hilton's glittering banquet room, he pleaded with 1,000 lawyers, once the main supporters of his rebellion but now disturbed and doubtful: "Revolution implies change. An immense majority of the people lack bread." The next night he blustered over TV: "If at some time it is necessary to apply revolutionary justice anew, we will defend...