Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement that epilepsy was caused by jinn. A man who steals pays with the loss of his hand; public amputations are commonplace (one result: Arabia has probably the lowest crime rate in the world). Social reform comes hard when slavery, sanctioned by Mohammed, still exists, though Saudis protest that slaves are well treated and often freed by owners eager to gain credit with Allah (old Ibn Saud used to release one every Friday after prayer). Tax reform is blocked by the Koran's ban on any personal tax on believers except the Zakaah, a small yearly levy paid...
...told Nasser of his annoyance that he had seized the canal without letting his allies know. The Saud money which used to be so lavishly spent on promoting Nasser's schemes throughout the Middle East suddenly was cut off. When Nasser called for a general Arab strike to protest the Suez conference in London, only Saud declined to participate. Some Egyptians demonstrated anyway in Jiddah. Police broke up the demonstration and deported the leaders...
...handed down two wage increases last year, and though they tardily ordered shopkeepers to keep prices pegged, the cost of living has leaped 25%. Last week, spurred by an announced 20 centimo (½?) rise in streetcar fares, the people of Barcelona (pop. 1,280,000) decided to make a protest. Word raced through the Catalonian capital: "Don't ride the streetcars...
...people who work two jobs to earn enough to live on got up at 5 a.m. to walk to work; their bosses, even at City Hall, were sympathetically tolerant of tardiness. Word had passed that there were to be no noisy gatherings, no overturned streetcars-just the simple protest of walking or hitchhiking...
Last week's protest, whose signers included Samuel Eliot Morrison '07, Jonathan Trumbull, Professor of History, Emeritus and David F. Cavers, associate dean of the Law School, said that the commission was illegal, since the United States Supreme Court has held that "states can not legislate in the field of subversive activities...