Word: protesting
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Clear Title. Interior admitted that the camp-in was an infraction of the rules-then had second thoughts. Since the demonstrators were only sleeping in the park in shifts, reasoned the department, their tents were merely symbols of protest, and protest is within the law. "They're not camping," solemnly declared Walter Pozen, a department spokesman. "They're demonstrating...
Because there were no police at the courthouse, the beatings touched off a controversy in Boston. Last Wednesday members of the Massachusetts Council for Constitutional Rights met Boston mayor John F. Collins to protest police unpreparedness...
...handful of youngsters who actively oppose the nation's draft seem intent on making a public display of their protest. So far, the public has been remarkably forbearing of their demonstrations, but last week the Vietniks picked the wrong place to stage a protest: South Boston. There, the predominantly Irish inhabitants not only retain a good bit of the rough and tumble of their immigrant ancestors but take most unkindly to unpatriotic displays. Trouble was in the air as eleven Viet Nam demonstrators reached the steps of the South Boston courthouse, where two of them calmly burned their draft...
Chauffeured Monks. Last week Hué provincial police staged a protest march against the recall of their chief to Saigon, after a weekend protest march of 20,000 civilians and even some uniformed soldiers demanding "Down with [Chief of State] Thieu and Ky" in 12-ft. banners. A two-day general strike was called for civil service employees -and like others in recent weeks, was happily honored by the citizens of Hué. Indeed, Hué and the five northernmost provinces of the 1 Corps, in which it is the principal city, are virtually under the control of militant Buddhist...
When some 300 Buddhists refused to break up a sit-down protest around the national radio station, Saigon police at last cracked down, wielding clubs and wicker shields in their first show of force...