Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Madan attended the protest as a representative of the UUSC...
Over 50 people attended last Tuesday's protest, but only the 13 students were arrested for blocking the entrance to the embassy by handcuffing themselves together. Five protesters attacked their necks to a railing using bicycle locks, which took firefighters half an hour to remove. The protest was peaceful...
...Huber brought the Harvard Faculty Club before the Cambridge License Commission to protest several ways in which she said the activities at the club were affecting her family's life...
...disappearance of 3,400 suspected communists and leftists, not to mention the torture of thousands of others. With that legacy hanging over his head, Pinochet rammed through an array of constitutional measures that made him immune to prosecution, including a lifetime Senator's seat that he took amid widespread protest last March, when he retired as an army general. "The locks and bolts made him untouchable," says Christian Democratic Congressman Andres Palma. "And he believed they would accompany him wherever he went in the world...
That might be a premature verdict, however. As a Chilean Senator, Pinochet was traveling with a diplomatic passport. Though the government of Chile's President, Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, is hardly a Pinochet ally, it had little choice but to protest formally "what it considers a violation of the diplomatic immunity that Senator Pinochet enjoys," and demanded "an early end of this situation." But the British Foreign Office argued that such immunity would apply only if Pinochet had been on a diplomatic mission. Last weekend Pinochet's allies in Congress were scrambling to determine if his visit...