Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's talent pool were revealed, for Strauss had little cachet in the diplomatic field, but he would bring the President a more audacious and political style in the Middle East. "I don't care whether Cy likes it or not," Carter told his aides, anticipating a protest from Vance. The President made certain to tell Brzezinski explicitly that he wanted Strauss's role enlarged beyond that of an ordinary ambassador, no matter how it upset Vance...
Andy Young's fall. Young was the highest-ranking black in the Administration, the only one with the President's ear, and blacks felt that he was unfairly and too quickly removed as a result of Jewish pressure. While Jewish groups did protest Young's secret meeting with the P.L.O., Jewish leaders insist they only wanted to torpedo the policy, not Young, noting that in one poll of Jewish leaders, only two called for Young's removal from his post...
...Chris Matthews to the Santa Cruz County board of supervisors. Matthews, who had spent a year and a half in prison for smuggling marijuana, then appointed John Hanna to the agricultural advisory board in Santa Cruz. Hanna is appealing a five-year sentence for bombing crop-dusting aircraft in protest against pesticides...
...since Khomeini took power seven months ago had there been such scenes of violent protest in the capital. The repeated clashes throughout the week seemed to be a test of strength over the course of Iran's revolution. In his message to the nation on Jerusalem Day, set aside to demonstrate international Islamic solidarity with the Palestinians, Khomeini gave an ominous warning to his country's leftists. Said he: "I shall give the final word if you continue your devilish scheming." The Fedayan had issued a warning of their own. "Hundreds of us died in our struggle against...
...Stephen Baird, 31, took to the streets during the antiwar crusade of the 1960s, and has been there ever since. A guitarist and dulcimer player, as well as a singer, he ranges out from his Boston base to cities and campuses across the country, carrying word of protest movements and food coops wherever he goes. His favorite cause is street music itself. He hopes for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to write a book about its lore, its leading lights and its legal problems. Balding, with thick wire-rimmed spectacles, Baird likes to work the same...