Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black students are halted at the entrance of Club 100, a Cambridge social club, and asked to present "membership cards." Three weeks of student protest and picketing later, the owner signs a 126-word statement aserting that "race, creed or color" will not keep patrons out of the club...
...life so lovely. Having always enjoyed the opportunity to find a cup of coffee late at night and play with a tutor's young child and seemingly endless chances to rant with a brilliant future law-school professor about the strange journalistic mantra of meta-reportage, perhaps I protest too much about Harvard's pampering...
...Stability above all else." Ten years after the tanks rolled through Tiananmen Square, that was President Jiang Zemin's directive, echoing through the state-run newspapers, and it seems to be the theme of a few tense days during which Beijing is determined to snip the fuse of protest before it burns too brightly. A Hong Kong-based human rights watchdog reports that authorities have questioned nearly 100 people to warn them against holding any memorials or demonstrations, and have kept at least 34 of them in detention. Police have paid visits to homes of parents who lost sons...
...Wednesday, Wang Li, along with all the other demonstrators, had stopped picketing the embassy--he vowed to continue his protest by boycotting McDonald's--and Ambassador Sasser for the first time in four days was able to leave the battered building. But workmen were only beginning to clean up the broken glass, rocks and other debris. The embassy remained closed for business until further notice, and although Jiang finally accepted a call from Clinton on Friday, nobody could predict how long it would take the U.S. and China to climb out of the hole they have dug for themselves...
...ground troops and ending the bombing gave Milosevic reason to hold out for more concessions from the alliance. And some appear to be coming -- over the weekend, Madeleine Albright conceded that Belgrade should be allowed to keep some troops in Kosovo after a settlement. But reports of a growing protest movement inside Yugoslavia against the war have also given NATO renewed cause to believe its air campaign will crack Belgrade's resolve. The commander of the Yugoslav forces in Kosovo, General Nebojsa Pavkovic, is reported to have spent Sunday placating mutinous soldiers and protesters in the Serbian town of Raska...