Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fretted: "[It] may add to the difficulties of an honorable settlement by creating yet another psychological hurdle." Turkey's Selim Sarper retorted: "[It] is only a beginning and a modest one." At debate's end, an overwhelming U.N. majority agreed with the Turkish spokesman, swiftly brushed protest and doubt aside. The Assembly approved the measure 47 to 0. The five Soviet bloc members refused to take part in the vote; eight other nations (Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sweden, Syria) abstained but indicated they would abide by the majority decision...
...ailing Lee-who has to be carried to Assembly sessions-resigned his office in protest. Corruption last week had become a major issue in war-torn South Korea: the National Assembly, like Lee, was sick of President Syngman Rhee's dishonest underlings. Latest scandal: embezzlement of some $800,000 in National Defense Corps funds...
Employees there, however, object to the program, and will start picketing administration offices this Thursday. The newly formed union, a local of the Federation of University Employees Unions held a protest meeting Friday at which speakers asked all employees to "unite against our biggest enemy--Yale...
Friends of the pranksters reported that the purpose of taking the stone had miscarried. Last Tuesday morning, the tombstone was erected in the Dunster courtyard as a protest against the dangerous corner of DeWolf Street and Memorial Drive, where several tragic accidents have occurred recently...
Most important Jewish prayer is the Shema: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One." This affirmation of monotheism was originally a protest against idolatry. Bernstein retells the legend of how Abraham, left as a boy to keep his father's idol shop, smashed every idol but the largest, and told his father that this one had broken all the others...