Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of about 30 students staged a candlelight vigil on the steps of Memorial Church in below-freezing temperatures last night as a memorial to South Africans who have died fighting apartheid...
...recently created Harvard Students forDemocratic China also will play an active role inthe week's events with a candle-light vigil Sundaynight to commemorate the six-month anniversary ofJune's Tiananmen Square massacre...
...goal is for the Harvard community atlarge, and all the Asian groups as well, toremember the issues that still face China," saidJoseph C. Kusnan '93, one of the coordinators forthe vigil. He added that the group had postedannouncements at other local colleges, includingBoston University, Boston College and Tufts
...strikes earlier this year have cost the Soviet Union an estimated $4.7 billion of lost production that will be missed as the bitter winter nears. That some hard-liners would like to crack down on the internal unrest was demonstrated last week, when thousands of people held a candlelight vigil outside the Moscow headquarters of the KGB to mourn the victims of Joseph Stalin. When a few started a march toward Pushkin Square, riot police charged the demonstrators, knocking scores to the ground...
...other protests Monday night, 10,000 people marched through downtown Dresden, and about 3000 people gathered in an East Berlin church for a pro-democracy vigil, activists said...