Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa--National Party leader F.W. de Klerk was elected yesterday to a five-year term as president and was criticized immediately by conservative opponents for allowing an anti-apartheid protest that drew an estimated 20,000 people...
...Electoral College, dominated by Parliament members of the National Party, cast a unanimous vote for de Klerk, just one day after the march in Cape Town, the largest legal protest march in South Africa's history...
...carrying out his stated policy to allow peaceful protest, de Klerk faces opposition not only from right-wing parties but from the security establishment that enjoyed wide powers under former President P.W. Botha...
Cambridge cleared its officers of harassment, calling their action "professional and appropriate," and the question clearly became, appropriate for whom? For which race? For the 500 galvanized into protest that week, the answer was clear, as it was for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and University Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner, who apologized to the students and appealed to Cambridge and the police. But again, the police have not responded...
...when the student body rallied to the cause of gays and lesbians in protest of the military's discrimination, the contest of values took on broader terms. ROTC advocates realized this when they adapted the campaign slogan, "Tolerance for everyone." But that was only a superficial acknowledgment of the underlying principle...