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Tens of thousands of Icelandic women walked off their jobs for 24 hours last week to protest "male privilege." Businessmen could not place telephone calls because most of Iceland's switchboard operators had joined their sisters on protest lines chanting, "We dare! We can! We will!" The government was temporarily leaderless because President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir had stayed away from her office to demonstrate solidarity with the striking women. Worst of all was the problem of breakfast. Many Icelandic men, having awakened to discover that their wives were refusing to prepare the morning meal, jammed restaurants...
...warning signs had been visible for months. In September the government of State President P.W. Botha expelled a U.S. correspondent for allegedly reporting "half truths." Only weeks later an American television camera crew was arrested and charged with disobeying a police order to leave a protest rally. In October Minister of Law and Order Louis Le Grange accused the foreign media of encouraging blacks to fake violent incidents in order to film them. Thus it came as little surprise to most of the 172 accredited foreign journalists in South Africa when on Nov. 2 the Botha government imposed new restrictions...
...unexpected outcome drew sharp protest from Greenpeace officials, who claimed that a deal had been struck between Paris and Wellington to suppress evidence gathered in the police investigation into the bombing. Greenpeace Chairman David McTaggart denounced the hearing as a "very low level" of justice. Said the conservative French daily Le Quotidien de Paris: "After smothering the repercussions of the Greenpeace affair, the Socialists are today benefiting from New Zealand justice...
That incident a year ago this week started one of the longest continuous demonstrations in U.S. history. Picketing and arrests organized by Robinson's Washington-based TransAfrica lobby occur every weekday in front of the South African embassy. They have ignited flares of protest in 26 other U.S. cities, pushing the Reagan Administration into toughening its mild "constructive engagement" policy toward South Africa...
...then put in small, dark cells. The Sandinistas' harsh questions reportedly delved into the detainees' private lives and the internal workings of the U.S. embassy. All were accused of being CIA plants and of being "counterrevolutionaries" because they worked for the U.S. Washington responded by lodging a sharp diplomatic protest. The Sandinistas promptly issued a statement declaring that the interrogations were "strictly internal" and therefore "outside the sphere of diplomatic relations...