Word: protesting
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...Texas, many Mexican-Americans deserted their Democratic habits, or simply stayed away from the polls, to help elect Republican Senator John Tower, as a protest against the conservative Democratic candidate, Waggoner Carr. In Michigan, Governor George Romney carried Macomb County, a district full of prosperous second-generation Poles, by an easy 18,000-vote margin over Zolton Ferency, "the man with the ethnic name." Perhaps the most clear-cut demonstration came in Chicago's heavily Polish Eleventh District, which has been represented for years by a professional Pole, Representative Roman Pucinski. Pucinski is part owner of a Polish-language...
...posts would be split between the parties. Together the two parties would control a commanding 447 members of the Bundestag. The only opposition would come from the 49 members of Erich Mende's Free Democrats, who sparked the crisis in October by quitting Erhard's government in protest against tax increases needed to balance next year's budget...
...Protest Vote. The Christian Democrats and Social Democrats were spurred to find a quick solution to the governmental crisis by last week's state election results in Bavaria, where the newly emerging far-rightist National Democrats polled a surprising 7.4% of the votes, winning 15 seats in the state's 204-seat Landtag. Most experts felt that many of the votes had been cast in protest against what the far rightists called "the mess in Bonn." The results served notice on the Christian Democrats and the Socialists that they must either organize a strong new government...
...protest was prompted by accusations of blackmail and espionage made last month by the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia against Marshall Shulman, an associate of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Schulman at the time was on a month-long visit to Moscow to discuss disarmament problems with Russian academic circles...
...Protest there was. In last week's issue, the New Leader printed rebuttals from eight correspondents (including two from Time Inc.). Almost to a man, Marshall's critics objected to what they felt was a suggestion that they shunned danger. Too many of them have been killed or wounded, they argued, for their courage to be in question. The war in Viet Nam, they said, is different from any other war, and Marshall did not seem to understand that overriding fact. He wanted too much attention paid to purely military matters, to the detriment of a much broader...