Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 500 people demonstrated in Boston Saturday to demand that the Supreme Court rule against Allan Bakke, and to protest the role the Bakke case has played in recent racial violence in Boston...
...farmers, the government began to expropriate the land. Thus was organized the Anti-Airport League, an odd amalgam of angry farmers and environmentalists since dominated by an assortment of radical students, who saw Narita as an outlet for their extremist zeal. The group built a series of "protest towers" at the end of the first runway, staged marches and harassed operations wherever it could. Altogether, since 1967 there have been 56 separate major incidents at Narita; four policemen and one demonstrator were killed, 3,100 cops and 5,000 protesters injured and 1,900 people arrested...
...offers of money and goods for Brittany's hard-hit fishermen; a radio station collected everything from pitchforks to rubber boots. A folk music group offered the earnings from a special new recording about the spill for the cleanup. Thousands of young people seized the catastrophe for political protest, shouting antinuclear-power slogans during a march in the port city of Brest (example: "Oil-covered today, radioactive tomorrow...
...aggregate surplus of almost $14 billion. Jimmy Carter, in his January economic message, put the figure much higher: almost $30 billion, which, he said, was "a drag on the economy." Governors and state legislators, worried that Congress would use the figure as an excuse to cut federal aid, protest that Carter improperly counted $15 billion in "social insurance" funds that are used to pay pensions, workmen's compensation and temporary disability benefits. That money should not be figured as part of the surplus, the state officials contend, because it cannot be used in day-to-day operations...
Included in the exhibit are copies of speeches and letters of protest from groups of Polish citizens that range from intellectuals and students to lawyers and the Catholic Church...