Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dilemma is no less uncomfortable for the local residents. Dror, who speaks Arabic fluently, asks shopkeepers why their stores are closed. Says one: "I got a telephone call reminding me that there is a commerce strike for 21 days to protest the expulsions and killings." The call came from the Shabiba, a P.L.O.-affiliated youth group. A major instructs Dror, "Tell them to open the shops. Tell them we shall weld their doors shut and not let them open for a week." He points to welding instruments. Ten minutes later most shops are open. Grumbles one Arab: "The Shabiba will...
...late 1985 Woodruff resigned to protest Batzel's inaction and asked for a transfer; he was demoted to a lower-level position and denied salary increases. After a two-year investigation, the University of California ruled in December that Woodruff had been unfairly reassigned. He was promptly named head of Livermore's verification program, which advises the Defense Department on technical issues concerning compliance with arms-control treaties...
...most chilling by-products of the Kremlin's aversion to protest has been its use of the Soviet mental-health-care system as an instrument for suppressing dissent. An untold number of dissidents have been clapped into mental hospitals and sometimes kept under control with mind-numbing drugs. , Now, under Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, Soviet psychiatric practices are finally getting what could prove to be a cathartic airing. Amid demands for reform, the Soviet press has begun printing stories of abuse, corruption and incompetence within the psychiatric establishment. On the political front, Western analysts note that...
...Paris, what began as protest over sex-segregated dormitories ended in a general strike and very nearly brought down the government of Charles de Gaulle. Hallucination again, the decade's leitmotiv of illusion: now you see it, now you don't. For some days it looked as if France were in the grip of a revolution, everyone manning the barricades. The country came to a boil and then, just as quickly, cooled down to the status...
...Vienna signed "A. Hitler" was auctioned for $36,000 in Louisville, but not before some two dozen people turned out to demonstrate against the sale. "The only reason the painting has value is because of his name, and his name was made as a mass murderer," said Protest Organizer J. Mary Sorrell...