Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after thousands of oil workers ended their strike to protest the arrest of opposition leader Moshood Abiola, Nigeria's military leader General Sani Abacha declared absolute power, issuing decrees placing his military government above the country's courts and allowing detention of people for up to three months without charges. Abiola, widely believed to have won the annulled 1993 presidential election, awaits trial on treason charges...
...because of the police and media attention. Still, the community is in shock and in mourning over the 11-year-old killer and his 14-year-old victim. "He was the baddest of bad," says Jeffrey Rowry, a local resident, "and she was the sweetest of sweet." In silent protest against the gangs, yellow ribbons have been tied around the trees on Shavon's block; baby-blue ribbons, alluding to Sandifer's age, decorate the home where he lived. Bay Sandifer, Yummy's aunt, walked over and hugged Shavon's mother. "We're all going to stick together," she said...
...after China sweetened a much criticized U.S. trade deal with a promise to reopen dialogue over its dismal human-rights policies, the Chinese government detained a leading dissident and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. Police took the dissident, Wang Dan, from his home for questioning but released him seven hours later. That's the second time he's been detained since U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown arrived Saturday for a Beijing visit. Brown had declared yesterday's offer a vindication of the U.S. decision to stop threatening to link China's most-favored-nation trade status and human...
...waiting for the official release of the NIH recommendations; they are lining up political allies in an effort to derail the guidelines. A group of 32 members of Congress, led by Representative Robert Dornan, a California Republican, has sent NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus a letter of protest. "It's Frankensteinesque," Dornan says. "What they are doing is embryo destruction, and there's no way that they can adjust that to suit me." The uproar could be louder than the denunciations last year of the two George Washington University doctors who announced that they had split a human embryo...
Other attempts may have succeeded, as nuclear workers grew increasingly desperate. At Krasnoyarsk-26, a factory producing weapons-grade plutonium, employees mounted a protest last month, demanding salaries that had not been paid since May. Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin then had to rush to Arzamas-16, where nuclear warheads are being disassembled, to head off a similar kind of unrest...