Word: protests
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Last week, an open meeting of the public interest advisory committee-- appointed by Clark in October to examine the future of the field at the Law School--attracted about 80 students. But the letter, endorsed unanimously by the Law School Council, is the largest protest on the issue since 1055 students signed petitions in October demanding that Clark restore the public interest career counseling positions eliminated over the summer...
...week, as Congress raced to adjourn before the Thanksgiving holiday, it sent the President a final 1990 budget bill lopping $14.7 billion off the deficit -- thanks, of course, to gimmicks and a $5.6 billion increase in what people outside the Washington Beltway usually call taxes. Without a murmur of protest or the slightest hint of a blush, Bush agreed to sign the measure into...
...arrest of Jennifer Casolo is Cristiani's trump card. It is an attempt to prove to Bush that even those North Americans who peacefully or silently protest the right-wing government are implicit and explicit supporters of the guerrillas. Cristiani's message applies not only to religious and humanitarian workers in El Salvador, but to all of us here who would like to see the end of U.S. financing of the decade-long civil...
...Moynahan also met adversity in a small counter-protest, as a former member of his group attacked additional signs that used the term "Japs" to criticize rising Japanese investment in America...
Adamec made the pledges in a meeting with the opposition Civic Forum movement after 11 straight days of unprecedented protest in Czechoslovakia. Millions of workers observed a two-hour general strike Monday, but the streets were quiet yesterday because the Civic Forum asked for calm...