Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't vote for Nixon, but we've got to support him now." Bob Steffenauer, 46, owns a restaurant in Pleasanton, Calif., and recently welcomed his son back from Viet Nam. He counts himself a Kennedy Democrat but says that some protest leaders "want to subvert Government policy and sink this country. I know Nixon is right in what he's doing." The antiwar protesters are, of course, just as convinced that Nixon is wrong. In the middle are perhaps most Americans?the true silent majority ?who are simply on the side...
...Fordham University in The Bronx, 36 students barricaded themselves inside the administration building for seven hours to protest the school's failure to abolish ROTC. The students used lead pipes and buckets of hot water to repulse unarmed campus guards but fled when city police arrived. They left behind ransacked offices and a white bed sheet with the word revolution scrawled across it in red. Six students were arrested, and at least six campus guards were injured, one seriously...
...University of Texas, police used clubs and Mace to disperse a crowd of 1,000 students and nonstudents who had gathered at the campus Union to protest a new decision that makes the Chuck Wagon snack bar off-limits for nonstudents. The decision was made by the student-dominated Union board following charges by the Austin district attorney that the snack bar was a hotbed of dope pushing and prostitution. This time the police were called by a student: Steve Van, 21, president...
...deal makes sense. True, Northwest will give only one share of its stock, worth about $35, for five Northeast shares, which traded at a total of almost $70 just before the announcement. Individual shareholders in Northeast will take a drubbing, and they have started to organize and protest; but even at the fire-sale price, Storer will get out with a profit. It has put $35 million into Northeast, and will receive Northwest stock currently worth around $38 million, plus a Northwest promise to repay with interest a $10 million Storer loan to Northeast...
...meantime, about six members of the University police gathered in readiness outside the dinning room, and the Ad Hoc committee to Receive President Pusey decided on the tactics of its announced protest for yesterday's dinner...