Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that Haig merely "had to do what Nixon told him to do and this is what he did." But former associates of Jaworski recall that his attitude was far different during the investigation. Insists one: "Jaworski used to rant and rave aplenty about Al Haig." When Jaworski threatened to protest publicly the White's House stalling over delivery of tapes, Haig pleaded for more time. Jaworski reluctantly agreed-and then Haig finally declared that the White House would not surrender more tapes on grounds of "national security." Says a Jaworski aide: "Leon went right through the roof." But Jaworski...
...forget that tanks and rockets could also be the reply." On Dec. 5, Solidarity declared a six-week moratorium on strikes. It also toned down its rhetoric. When the government suspended screenings of Workers 80, a film about the strikes, the union raised only a mild protest. A month earlier, such censorship would have provoked a strike threat at the very least...
...Thatcher pleading with her to intervene. The Iron Lady's refusal to do so, combined with her plea that the strikers "take the course of life rather than the course of death," apparently convinced them that they could not win. On Thursday evening they called off the protest. The next day, 33 other Republican prisoners, who had been fasting for up to 19 days in support of the original seven, gave...
...White House reacted strongly to the latest oil cartel action, but the protest sounded similar to those of past years. Said presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell: "We do not consider these increases to be justified, particularly in the light of the good record of the U.S. and the industrial world in restraining demand...
...Committee of Fifteen was a predecessor of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities convened after the April, 1969, student occupation of University Hall for the specific purpose of disciplining students who participated in that protest...