Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veterans then plan to meet a delegation of Congressmen and Senators on the steps of the C????l where guerrilla theatre search-and-destroy missions will be taking place. The group will set up a round the-clock vigil there, which will last until the operation is over on Friday...
Some of the scheduled actions are familiar: a march on Congress to demand an immediate withdrawal of all American military forces from Indochina, continuous lobbying and a constant vigil at the Capitol...
...machinery remained silent yesterday as groups of women maintained their vigil in the cold, bleak warehouse setting of 888 Memorial Drive...
Later the princess spent a night at Treetops, the game-viewing lodge where, in 1952, her mother became Queen Elizabeth II on the sudden death of King George VI. The first of the Queen's children to visit the spot and keep the traditional all-night vigil for game, Anne protested that she could not photograph a colony of wart hogs below: she was blocked by photographers waiting to photograph her. Brother Charles, who landed a 62-lb. perch in Kenya's Lake Rudolf before setting off on a four-day camel safari in the wild northeast, also...
...Warsaw's timing could not have been worse. Posted eleven days before Christmas in a staunchly Roman Catholic nation where the birth of Jesus is celebrated with gluttonous enthusiasm, the price rises were a direct provocation. Even the poorest family, for instance, sits down to a nine-course "Vigil Dinner" on Christmas Eve. So great was irritation over the government's moves that only a spark was needed to transform it into rebellion. The Lenin Shipyards provided that spark...