Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--More than 200,000 people filled the streets of Prague yesterday, demanding free elections and the resignation of its hard-line leader in the largest protest ever in this Communist nation...
...Freedom!" and "End to one party rule!" cried the demonstrators in Prague. Their protest began with a few hundred people in central Wenceslas Square and turned into a triumphal march for democracy, accompanied by the clanging of bells from sympathetic trolley-car drivers. Bystanders jangled their keys in solidarity...
Czechoslovakia's government also has rejected reforms, but yesterday's protest in Prague was the fourth in as many days and indicated severe trouble for the leadership...
...going had no political or moral repercussions. I was going to experience China's culture and hopefully come to a better understanding of it. My going was not an act of support of the current Communist regime, any more than my not going would have been an act of protest against...
...elections were prompted by rioting last April among Jordan's Bedouin community, the base of Hussein's support, to protest consumer price hikes. In addition, there was widespread suspicion that recent governments have been riddled with corruption. But the strong showing by the fundamentalists suggested a rejection of the secular Western values personified by the King himself...