Word: protesters
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...First Amendment, untouched for 198 years, is safe again. Ever since the $ Supreme Court ruled last summer that burning the flag was a form of political protest that was protected by the free-speech amendment, lawmakers have been posturing and pontificating on the issue. No one could forget that Michael Dukakis during last year's presidential campaign was outflagged by George Bush. The patriotic grandstanding was led by the President, who traveled across the Potomac to the Iwo Jima Memorial -- cameras in hot pursuit -- to denounce the ruling and demand a constitutional amendment. But when the proposal came...
...Students Protest Israeli General...
...crowd of about 40 people opposing Israel's occupation of the West Bank staged the second protest this fall against an Israeli general's fellowship at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) yesterday evening...
...similar demonstration on October 6, members of the Harvard Israel Public Affairs Committee (HIPAC) staged a counter-protest. HIPAC was unable to protest yesterday's demonstration, according to committee chair Ivan J. Dominguez...
...arrival of the Kennedys. For the first time, the White House was deemed worthy of full-time photo coverage. In 1963, as historical events darkened, photojournalism regained some of its tragic power. The A.P.'S Malcolm Browne methodically photographed a Buddhist monk burning himself to death in a Saigon protest. A Dallas Times-Herald photographer caught the instant of Lee Harvey Oswald's death...