Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reconciliation I shall withdraw our forces immediately from Southern Viet Nam.' " Retired Army General James M. Gavin, a former U.S. ambassador to France who early last year recommended consolidating U.S. positions in strategic enclaves in Viet Nam, last week resigned from the Massachusetts Democratic Advisory Council to protest the Administration's handling of the war. "It is having disastrous consequences on the national economy," he said. "As a result, the President's domestic programs are grossly underfunded. I simply will not support Johnson for President in 1968." Other Democratic Party workers are trying...
...observers are aware of its value. "No matter who is shouting for Negro rights in the streets," says Clarence Hunter, spokesman for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "you must still have Young to go inside and deal for the jobs and the training." Says Young: "You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course." Though the Urban League has in many ways changed almost beyond recognition from the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes that was set up in New York...
Precisely because the spoken word is so important to the Arabs, government censors at first felt compelled to red-pencil portions of the regular Friday sermon from the silver-domed El Aksa mosque. In protest, most of the mosque's weekly crowd of 15,000 worshipers stayed away, and 24 leading professional, political and religious Arabs of Jerusalem called for a cam paign of noncooperation with Israel. Alarmed, the Israelis canceled censorship of the sermons-and transferred responsibility for dealing with the Moslem religious community from the Israeli Ministry of Religion to Dayan's Defense Ministry, which...
...election, won handily by BCMC, was July 20. According to its usual procedure, the Commission delayed making the results official to give all parties to the election a chance to protest any irregularities in the campaigning or the balloting. There were no protests...
...them in their 20s, whooped their approval of resolutions that called for, among other things: an investigation of the possible separation of the U.S. into distinct black and white countries (which curiously suggests the South African divisions of apartheid); a boycott of all sports by Negro athletes; and a protest against birth-control clinics on the grounds that they represent a white conspiracy to eradicate the black race...