Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asian American Association (AAA) last night elected a new president, who said she will try to define the club's role as a social and activist organization more effectively...
...appears that Paul Hill won't serve the two life terms to which he was sentenced just last week. Today a judge sentenced the antiabortion activist to death in the electric chair for slaying an abortion doctor and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola, Florida abortion clinic. Hill listened with a blank look on his face as Judge Frank Bell read his sentence. But an abortion foe who was in court yelled out: "This man is innocent and his blood will be on your hands, the hands of the people of the state of Florida and on the jury!" The judge...
...Society for the Gaza Strip. "It just provoked a lot of people." By aligning himself with a factional militia, critics said, the chairman had undercut his claim to be a national leader. "He is going back to acting like the head of a gang," said Ghazi Abu Jayyab, an activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Bloody Friday also tainted the image of the Authority's 9,000-member Gaza Strip security force. "The uncommitted, nonpolitical man in the street is now hostile to the police," said Akram Ibrahim, a Gaza cabdriver and former Fatah activist...
...playing footsie with the communists." Last year, after debating Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, about the virtues of the Confederate flag, he said, "I'm going to sing Dixie to her until she cries." When Clinton nominated Roberta Achtenberg, a gay-rights activist, to a post at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Helms said, "She's not your garden-variety lesbian. She's a militant-activist-mean lesbian...
Bret D. Schundler '81, mayor of Jersey City, N.J., and Native American rights activist Winona LaDuke '80 were also selected as budding national leaders...