Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-year-old boy 'with a big hole in his head' from a Batista air raid. They were also harangued about the delivery of 300 rocket warheads to the Cuban air force at the Guantánamo base on May 18-the event that touched off the protest kidnapings...
...week's end, the British Foreign Office fired off a "strong protest" to Moscow, insisted that the Soviet government issue forthwith instructions "to ensure that there is no recurrence of any incident of this kind." But the indignation was more official than real. Erich Teayn will undoubtedly get political asylum. And no one thought the Shetland Islands were in any danger so long as there were canny crofters like Willie Fraser...
...among villagers who camped all night at the few wells that still gave water. In Calcutta (top temperature 111°F., the highest since 1924) half the railwaymen refused to work in the heat, created such chaos with train schedules that mobs smashed the offices of stationmasters in protest...
...Geneva, the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation could only protest and reiterate "full confidence" in Lajos Ordass. From Vienna a TIME correspondent cabled this picture of the defeated bishop: "He now lives in a two-room Budapest apartment with his wife, two daughters and two grandchildren. Wearing an old grey sweater, as grey as his face, and smoking too much, Ordass manages to speak serenely despite the fact that he is obviously ill. He may or may not get a pension from the government. But his wife, who is suffering from asthma, recently learned...
Trial Balloon. Since he was ordained in 1933, Carlos Cucchetti has rarely stayed out of trouble. When Perón first came to the fore, Cucchetti led 10,000 people in a protest march. When the Catholic hierarchy supported Perón, he blasted his bosses and was relieved of his parish. When Perón turned against the church, he shed his cassock and organized anti-Perón resistance. In July 1956, with Perón booted out of Argentina, Father Cucchetti went to Italy, talked over his idea for a Christian-Jewish brotherhood movement with Vatican officials...