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| Australia abolished peace-time compulsory military training. |
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The north African nation of Algeria began a war of independence against French colonial rule.
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French troops clash with Algerian civilians
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50,000 women joined protests against the resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests.
The demonstrations, in at least 60 U.S. cities, led to founding of Women Strike for Peace.
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“Women’s Strike for Peace” storming the Pentagon in a 1967 protest against the war in Vietnam.
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The Detroit City Council voted for immediate withdrawal of U.S. armed forces
from Vietnam.
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| As part of the adoption of the International Law of the Sea, forty-three nations agreed to ban dumping industrial wastes at sea by 1995. Neither the U.S. or Canada (along with Albania, Burundi, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan and San Marino) have ever ratified the treaty which thus lacks the force of federal law. |
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A Tel Aviv memorial for Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin, slain eight years previously, was transformed into a peace rally with over 100,000 protesting the military policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 