Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British exploded the bombs. The top two stories of the theater's living quarters collapsed, snapping telephone poles, piling rubble atop nearby shops. Hundreds of seats in the theater were shattered. The British refused to listen to Owner Papageorghiou's claims for $56,000 compensation, and in protest, other movie houses in Famagusta shut down...
...African National Congress, political arm of the voteless 9,000,000 blacks, called for a three-day protest strike during election week. Strijdom's Nationalists reacted by outlawing the congress in four native reserves, forbidding Africans to assemble in groups of more than ten in urban centers, sending squads of club-swinging police on raids in native shantytowns. They need not have bothered: few Africans seemed disposed to give up three days' pay for a bootless protest...
...last long. To make a $196 million barter deal with Red China, he had agreed to a Red Chinese trade mission in Tokyo, which would be allowed to fly Communist China's flag over their headquarters and on their cars. To mollify Nationalist China-which had slapped a protest boycott on Japanese goods-Kishi ruled that Red China's flag would not have diplomatic status in Tokyo, but would get police protection under the laws against damaging private property. Formosa was pacified, but the Communists were not. Last week Radio Peking announced that the deal...
When Columbia indicated that it might go the way of the compatible disk a month ago, the industry, flinching at the memory of the "Battle of the Speeds" in the late '40s, set up a protest. Columbia's compatible disk, other recordmakers argued, produced neither good monaural sound nor genuine stereo sound. Protesting its faith in its system, Columbia nonetheless fell into line. Chances are that the majors will be out by midsummer with a limited number of noncompatible stereo disks selected for their inherent sound qualities...
Ryan entered the race for presidency of the HYDC two days before the February elections. Winans had been unopposed, and Ryan became a candidate in protest against Winans' "ambitions" in the New England club. He indicated yesterday that the administration persisted in "objectionable policies...