Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story." About: Birth-control activist. No, no, it didn't come under fire merely because it mentioned contraceptives. The Center blasted this movie because it "equates yesteryear's pro-contraception crusade with today's pro-abortion movement." Gee. Don't know where the movie makers got that one from. No antiabortion group these days would ever lump contraception and abortion together. Never. Given that Margaret Sanger, the first major birth-control activist, founded Planned Parenthood, the birth-control/abortion link seems like a fairly logical progression from either a conservative or liberal stance...
...LEAVING ON ANOTHER risky mission to China last month, human-rights activist Harry Wu offered Sue Howell, the assistant who was accompanying him, some advice on how to survive a Chinese interrogation. "Play it like a game," he said. "They insist you give them something. You resist, then give a little. But you get in trouble if you give everything at once or if you refuse to cooperate." Wu must now follow his own counsel, since the Chinese arrested him on that trip. But his words might also be useful to the U.S., whose relations with China seem to worsen...
Thousands gathered to hear the noted politicianand activist speak on the subject of employeerights...
...senior policy advisers--convinced that normalization would be good for diplomacy, for business and for prompting a full accounting of American soldiers still missing in action--have recommended that the step be taken very soon. At the same time, Hanoi said it would let an ailing Vietnamese human-rights activist and his wife join relatives...
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been invited to lead the U.S. delegation to United Nations International Woman's Conference in Beijing, has a diplomatic problem now that China has detained American human rights activist Harry Wu. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a solution. In an interview with The Washington Times published today, Gingrich said the U.S. should try to move the conference out of Beijing in protest. If not, he warned, the House might simply cancel funding for the U.S. group...