Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beefed-up force of 17,200 police and security officers maintained a siegelike vigil in Paris. Though most residents remained on edge, they were breathing easier. More than a week had gone by since the last terrorist bombing, and there was some relief as police arrested seven French militants and four Lebanese for questioning. But no one dared predict that the nightmare was over. Indeed, a C.S.P.P.A. communique warned that the "fire will spread" if its demands were not met. Abdallah, meanwhile, was transferred from Fleury- Merogis prison outside Paris to La Sante prison in the capital for added security...
...GAMBLE worked? To some degree it has been successful in rallying veterans to the fasters' cause. Veterans' groups around the country have responded to the fast with vigils, fasts and fund-raisers, including a veterans' vigil on the Boston Common that culminated with a rally last week...
...inspiration to the other nations of the world: men and women linked arm to arm guarding the ballot boxes; computer technicians hired by the government to do the official count walking out of the fraudulent tabulation; tens of thousands of men and women, with their children about them, in vigil, half in fear, half in joy, guarding with their bodies the small detachment of rebel soldiers; nuns kneeling in the path of oncoming tanks; a nation rising to a new dignity. These images, and more, chronicled for all the world the courage and pride of a people, their deep faith...
...Carney, a Russian and East European studies major at Yale. The People section carries an item about a gigantic "Jaws"-like shark caught off Long Island that was reported by Peter Cleveland, a history student at Columbia University. The photograph of New Yorkers at an antidrug candlelight vigil in the lead Nation story was taken by Carl Ganter, a student in the American-culture program at Northwestern. Throughout the summer the World Notes page has been written by Princeton English Major Wendy Smith, who handled a variety of other articles as well. And this week's cover story...
...meeting, sponsored by the Harvard Republican Club, attracted about 15 undergraduates--just two of them from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) the student group which built the shanties. "The SASC leadership discouraged people from attending" because of a candlelight vigil scheduled for the same time, said SASC member Nathaniel A. Wice...