Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite eleventh-hour efforts to withhold its class gift in protest of a lack of female faculty at the University, the Radcliffe Class of 1960 was unable to prevent Harvard from receiving the money...
...RISING TORRENT of anti-ATF rhetoric has nurtured the perception that ATF agents are justifiable targets for heckling, if not outright assassination, an attitude that Ron Noble, Under Secretary of the Treasury for enforcement, likens to the 1960s protest ethos that branded all police officers "pigs." ATF's opponents, he says, don't loathe the bureau itself, just the laws it must enforce. "So what do you do?" he asks. "You attack an agency that not very many people know a lot about." Says a supervisory agent: "If you can't get the laws overturned, you pound on the agents...
Some of the more memorable demonstrationsincluded a June protest in which union memberscarried an effigy of the vacationing Rudenstineand a Halloween event when protesters dressed incostumes and stirred a "cauldron," which theyfilled with demands...
...Conference in Beijing, has a diplomatic problem now that China has detained American human rights activist Harry Wu. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a solution. In an interview with The Washington Times published today, Gingrich said the U.S. should try to move the conference out of Beijing in protest. If not, he warned, the House might simply cancel funding for the U.S. group...
...Viktor Chernomyrdin would take his place, Kohan notes. "It's interesting that Chernomyrdin's press secretary was the first one to announce that Yeltsin was fine and the prime minister would not be taking over for him. The whole thing has a bit of "the lady doth protest too much" quality...