Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last May, 50 members of the Black Law Students Association--joined by Bell--occupied Vorenberg's office for 24 hours to protest the paucity of minority professors. And Alianza, the school's Hispanic student organization, held two silent demonstrations and postered the campus this spring to protest the lack of a Hispanic professor. In April 125 law students held a study-in as part of a protest involving students at over 35 law schools nationwide demanding greater faculty diversity...
Chinese sources said they heard the man shot Li because one of his relatives was killed by soldiers in Tiananmen Square, focus of the student protest for democracy...
...escalated the next day, however, when several Lampoon initiates began goose-stepping down Mass. Ave., carrying the club banner in a march for independence. Councillor Michael A. Sullivan saw the group marching and asked whether they had a protest permit. When the marchers answered that they hadn't, Sullivan attempted to confiscate the Lampoon banner from them...
Critics of Super 301 fretted that the tactics might backfire, provoking retaliatory measures from a Japan that is tired of being blamed for U.S. economic ills. The rumblings from Japan were ominous. Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno called in newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Michael Armacost to protest Japan's inclusion on the list. "As a result of many market-opening measures, the Japanese market has now become wide open," he insisted. "None of the identified ((restrictions)) can be considered to constitute trade barriers...
Martial law, blocked satellite transmissions and a dearth of reliable sources are all part of a very long day's work. -- TV has made English the lingua franca of protest...