Word: protesters
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...overshadowed much of last semester as the dean search drew student and faculty frustrations close to the surface. With a new dean expected to address key issues such as minority groups' calls for greater campus representation and the deep rift between radical and more conservative faculty members, outbreaks of protest marked the Law School scene...
...wielding police used tear gas, water cannons and dogs against 4,000 ^ people who were about to begin a peaceful demonstration in Prague's Wenceslas Square. The rally was called to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Jan Palach, a student who set fire to himself in protest against the 1968 Soviet- led invasion...
...more than 500 have been wounded as Palestinians, galvanized perhaps by the U.S. decision to talk to the Palestine Liberation Organization, have kept up a steady barrage of rocks and fire bombs. Nearly 90% of the violence involves stones, and most of the throwers are children. Strikes to protest the surge in deaths led only to more lethal encounters with Israeli troops...
...each time the army toughens its measures, critics abroad protest. In Washington, State Department spokesman Charles Redman called the new I.D.F. guidelines "very disturbing" and declared, "We don't believe that the use of lethal force in non-life-threatening situations should be necessary to preserve order." Such comments carry weight in Jerusalem at a time when the Israeli government feels considerable pressure to pursue a diplomatic solution. Prime Minister Shamir is drawing up a new peace plan to present to Washington in March that he hopes will cool the fire in the territories by offering a modicum of political...
...shocking protest over his company's involvement in tobacco, the Big Fig Newton hangs up his green booties for good. RJR-Nabisco's new owners, the takeover giant Kohlberg, Kravitz and Roberts (a.k.a. Harvard's slush fund), fill his pointy shoes with another prominent ambassador of good will. "Indeed, it is a profound honor to assume such a prestigious post. It is a veritable step up the ladder, one might say," former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III tells Gourmet magazine...