Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Henry Kissinger dismisses the deals of the Viet Nam War protesters as 'stimulated by a sense of guilt encouraged by modern psychiatry and the radical chic rhetoric of affluent suburbia," he is forgetting the thousands of Viet Nam vets who joined those ranks upon their return home. As to his statement that we could not end the war "as if we were switching a television channel," the protest movement's apt response was that we saw no sense in continuing an unfounded horror show switched on by others...
...Department Herpetologist C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. whipped off a letter to the beanery urging that the reptile be spared. Pennsylvania's scarce timber rattlesnake is rapidly approaching extinction, he warned. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus got wind of the letter and promptly fired Dodd, mainly for sending a personal protest on official Government stationery...
...settlements by expropriating 1,000 acres of publicly held Arab land (that is, land in which proof of private ownership does not exist). That was not enough for the nationalistic Gush Emunim, which fanned out over the West Bank and set up 35 to 40 squatters' settlements in protest. Israeli troops evicted them and tore down their tents. But the Cabinet's move to expand the seven settlements brought a stinging blast from Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil...
...Next year, there will be a full-scale effort to register stronger protest," he added...
...reply and stuck to his prepared speech, an old-fashioned appeal for religious commitment by nuns. To him that is symbolized by the wearing of "a simple and suitable religious garb" as a "permanent" sign of their calling. As he spoke, about 50 nuns stood silently in protest of his policy on women priests; every one was clad in street clothes. Remarked Moral Theologian Charles Curran of nuns' garb, "Most American women thought that issue had been settled years...