Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stanford Committee on Responsible Investment Policy, the student group that organized the sit-in as well as a noon protest rally, also held a forum last night to discuss the South African issue and possible actions to convince the university to push for complete corporate withdrawal from South Africa...
...founding of a new Jewish settlement on the West Bank at Karnei Shomron. The settlement had actually been started in January, but the rally was the Gush Emunim's way of proclaiming that settlement is continuing on the West Bank. Significantly, the Premier's office made no protest against the announcement of the new−and provocative−settlement...
...Daoud had been beset by rising unrest. Complaints about climbing prices and feckless administration mounted, and were exploited by an increasingly active Communist movement called Khalq (the masses). Last month, a Communist leader was killed in Kabul, sparking a demonstration by thousands of mourners, who took the occasion to protest the murder and, for some reason, to shout anti-American slogans. The subsequent arrest of half a dozen leftist leaders may have triggered the coup...
...most dramatic protest is in California, where 1.5 million people have signed petitions and forced a statewide vote to be held June 6 on Proposition 13, the so-called Jarvis-Gann initiative. If approved, Jarvis-Gann would force all property to be reassessed at the market value that prevailed in 1975-76 and prevent local authorities from increasing the assessments in the future by more than 2% a year, at least until the property is sold. After that, the rate would be based on what the new owner paid. The amendment would produce an immediate cut of as much...
DIED. Will Geer, 76, protest-minded character actor who capped a long career with his portrayal of the blustery grandfather in television's homespun series, The Waltons; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Wanderlust led the young Geer to riverboat theater, the Shakespearean stage and the bright lights of Broadway (Of Mice and Men, Tobacco Road). Blacklisted in the McCarthy era, he pursued an interest in botany with a book on the 1,000 plants in Shakespeare's plays and a repertory theater in Topanga Canyon, Calif, called the Theatricum Botanicum, where he continued to hold workshops...