Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Offices and banks shut down, most buses and trains stopped running, many food stores, closed. Except for the vigil by mourners, Buenos Aires last week came to a standstill in grieving for Juan Domingo Perón. His death at 78 from severe influenza followed by cardiac arrest plunged the nation into sorrow and anxiety over the future of Argentina without Per?...
...Henry Kissinger was trying to negotiate peace, TIME'S bureaus deployed on both sides of hostile borders. In Israel, the Jerusalem bureau's David Halevy and Photographer David Rubinger raced to Ma'alot. For an eyewitness report at the climax of a day's excruciating vigil, Halevy moved into the school building with a wave of Israeli paratroopers. Says Halevy, who was wounded in the October war: "I have seen many terrible scenes as a soldier and as a journalist. But I have never seen anything as bad as Ma'alot." Bureau Chief William...
Although it was past midnight Monday when Brandt's resignation was announced, more than 150 torch-bearing Social Democratic Party members marched up to Brandt's house on the Venusberg overlooking Bonn. Placing candles before its heavy iron gate, they took up a silent vigil, broken only by occasional shouts of "Willy! Stay in office!" The following day, tens of thousands of Brandt supporters marched through cities across Germany-Hamburg, Frankfurt, Hannover, West Berlin, Bonn. Telegrams urging the Chancellor to reconsider flooded S.P.D. headquarters...
...holding action. Perhaps taking a hint from the premiere episode of TV's popular Apple's Way, in which the hero staged a tree-in, Mrs. Stebbins climbed into the tree last week and remained there twelve to 15 hours a day, vowing to keep up her vigil until the huge tree was granted a reprieve. By midweek she had gained the support of many neighbors, some joining her in the tree, others keeping the faith on the ground...
...crowd began its vigil at the OGCP offices on Dunster St., then moved into the Yard and stood in front of University Hall chanting, "Honeywell out of Harvard!" Their shouts drew a few bespectacled faces to the windows, but no other response from either administrators or OGCP officials...