Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There has been speculation that the reason the White House has refused to confirm the President's plans is simply to avoid a big protest like the one in Los Angeles several weeks ago which ended in a serious clash between police and demonstrators...
...peace workers say that the uncertainty of Johnson's trip has hampered their plans to protest. They believe the most demonstrators they will be able to turn out if he comes...
...nationwide canvassing project is called Vietnam Summer and it was born in Cambridge, quietly, just as the New York march hubbub was dying. The idea originated with Gar Alperovitz, a fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Politics who resigned his State Department post last year in protest against the war. Martin Luther King, who visited Cambridge to lend his prestige to the launching of the project, contributed the name which is reminiscent of the famous Civil Rights Summer...
...gaps in the festival program are getting progressively harder to fill. In protest against the artistic restrictions laid down by Greece's governing colonels, the Kiev Ballet, the Budapest Symphony and the Moscow Symphony have all canceled scheduled performances. An English chamber-music ensemble has sent its regrets; the Los Angeles Symphony and the Philadelphia Woodwind Ensemble have joined the boycott. Athenians are faced with a summer of safe plays and sedate music by Italian chamber-music groups who are already in town and seem content to stay for a while...
...Market permission to impose a "compensatory" tax on such imports while French industry modernized to meet the competition. After the tax was repealed, the French tried raising import duties and imposing inordinately rigid border inspections in vain efforts to stem the appliance flow. Now. France is considering an official protest to the Common Market Commission...