Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EXACTLY 19 years ago today, thousands of unarmed South African demonstrators were protesting in Sharpeville and Langa against apartheid's passbook system when police suddenly opened fire on the crowds, killing 69 and wounding 186 others. The rallies against the hated pass laws were part of a nationwide protest campaign spearheaded by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). In the following weeks of protests, South African police killed another dozen blacks and injured hundreds more...
However, Raymond W. Stone, chief of planning and appraisal for the FAA, said the Quincy heading would have been discontinued after six months with or without community protest. "The National Environmental Policy Act doesn't allow change of heading on more than just a temporary, experimental basis...
Many Iranian women are furious over the Ayatullah's attempt to impose a subservient role on females. Last week, after Khomeini was quoted as proclaiming that "women must not come naked into ministries," thousands of women, many dressed defiantly in tight jeans and skirts, paraded in Tehran in protest. Orthodox Islamic men attacked the demonstrators, and though guerrillas protecting the women fired warning shots, the zealots stabbed one woman and injured others...
...Atapour, has forecast that a civil war will begin within two weeks. Writing in the daily Tehran Journal, he complained, "We know that a new constitution is about to be imposed on us, but since we do not know what it contains we cannot contest it. We can merely protest against the undemocratic way that the entire revolutionary aftermath is being handled." Given the theocratic rule now taking shape in Iran, Atapour may have taken a big risk by publishing that lament. Events in Iran last week made it clear that his prediction could turn out to be right...
...plea for assistance, Mrs. Stinson contacted as many newspapers and radio stations as she could and urged them to broadcast descriptions of her missing daughter. Only The Boston Globe and WBZN radio agreed to her request. Upon learning of the death of the third woman, Mrs. Stinson led a protest to the mayor's office...