Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loved ones back home needed no reminders. As rescue workers clawed through the smoking ruins last week of what had once been the Battalion Landing Team Headquarters of the U.S. Marines, and the toll grew bleaker, relatives and friends kept vigil across the country, awaiting word. For most, the news came only after several wrenching days of uncertainty. All of a sudden, the dreaded figure in uniform would appear and say, "The Secretary of the Navy has asked that I inform...
...resplendent 72-acre compound that is known to the faithful as the City of Joy. These days it more closely resembles a city of death. Inside the temple compound, fierce Sikh warriors wield submachine guns, guarding against encroachment by government security forces. Outside, the security men keep a nervous vigil, all too aware that the bodies of murdered comrades often turn up in the warren of tiny streets around the shrine...
Rally participant Dan Wolfe expressed "a sense of outrage and impotence" at the American invasion and exhorted students to attend tonight's scheduled vigil at city hall...
Neverthless, there is some coordinator-at Williams and elsewhere-among supporters of anti-apartheid actions. While advocates of divestiture at Harvard fasted last month. Several students at Williams also staged brief "sympathy fasts." Students at Columbia University also staged a candlelight vigil in support of the Harvard hunger strikers at the time. Columbia Faculty senate that the university divest from all companies conducting business in South Africa...
Nevertheless, there is some coordination--at Williams and elsewhere--among supporters of anti-apartheid actions. While advocates of divestiture at Harvard fasted last month, several students at Williams also staged brief "sympathy fasts." Students at Columbia University also staged a candlelight vigil in support of the Harvard hunger strikers at the time. Columbia's Board of Trustees is currently considering the recommendation of the Columbia Faculty Senate that the university divest from all companies conducting business in South Africa...