Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three of them were members of M.D.B., the vote went overwhelmingly against the government. With that, the Deputies began their preparations for a siege, which soon took on the overtones of a carnival. They set up cots, organized a "resistance command" to guard the doors, considered registering a protest with the U.N., even started tinkering with a patriotic hymn...
That was six too many. "After two years and in the middle of an election campaign," stormed M.D.B. President Franco Montoro, "this measure shrieks to the heavens." Even Adauto Cardoso, president of the Chamber of Deputies and a key ARENA leader, registered his hot protest. "Only after consulting the directors of the House and the vote of the majority of the Deputies," Cardoso announced, "will I feel authorized to declare the extinction of the mandates." Congressional leaders promptly summoned Deputies back to Brasilia for a vote. Angrily, Castello Branco in effect ordered ARENA members to stay just where they were...
...Praise & Protest. The report, bannered in the press and seized upon by cartoonists, drew ardent praise and scandalized protests. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, a past president of the Methodist Conference, found it "just right." The Rt. Rev. Ronald Williams, Anglican Bishop of Leicester, demurred: "Sexual intercourse outside marriage is wrong, and young people should be told this." This week the British Council of Churches must consider whether to accept the report as an official pronouncement, and the extremes of disagreement guaranteed a battle...
Present at the time was a U.S. consular official with only one duty: the standard consular task of seeking for arrested Americans the same justice enjoyed by the arresting country's own citizens. In Simmons' case, however, the U.S. official failed to protest the patent violation of Mexican line-up law. He had never heard...
After the picketing Saturday, Teixeira requested police protection because he feared violence. The demonstrators were members of the American Veterans Committee, Boston Local #1. They did not protest Teixeira's communism per so, but objected to the association of Frederick Douglass--"a genuine American here"--with a communist bookstore...