Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...challenge of this civil rights revolution which is surging forward in the house of labor and all areas of American life." To begin, Randolph will bear down with the "leverage of pressure" on both political parties. At the national conventions, he promises, Negro unionists and churchmen will lead "massive protest demonstrations . . . against both parties' failure to enact meaningful civil rights legislation." While Randolph was disowning all the candidates, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins made a bow to Richard Nixon. The Vice President, said Wilkins, has a "good record on civil rights." As for the Democratic presidential contenders...
...week began with Argentina's protest to the U.N. Security Council that the kidnap of Mass Murderer Eichmann from Buenos Aires by Jewish "volunteers" was "incompatible with the preservation of international law." Argentina demanded "just reparations" and the punishment of those responsible. To avoid a showdown, an attempt was made to arrange a friendly meeting in Belgium between Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion and Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, who were both touring the Continent. Ben-Gurion agreed, provided that the return of Eichmann was not an issue. Other Israelis had resentfully pointed out that Argentina had provided...
...also pertinent to recall that the reasons the 200 persons were put to death during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth were not religious but political. Far more significant, however, is the difference between persecution by the churches of the Reformation and death for heresy. Thomas Cranmer protested against faith by compulsion, and there was a storm of protest in Protestant churches against Calvin's part in the burning of Servetus. We have to bear the burdens of our history but we also have to make distinctions. (THE REV.) JUNIUS J. MARTIN Christ Church, Frederica Saint Simons Island...
...Mission. This week the Socialists were still boycotting the Diet, threatening to use force against any further legislation they disapprove of. Sohyo planned to pull out the railwaymen in a big protest strike. No one, probably not even they themselves, knows what the Zenga-kuren students will do next...
...shift overseas has raised a storm of protest at home. Some businessmen use it as an argument for higher tariffs; Chambers of Commerce often consider it downright "disloyal"; unions complain that it "exports" U.S. jobs, cuts employment. David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers, says: "Expansion is legitimate, but expansion at the expense of American workers is illegitimate...