Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 120 student activists who participated in the initial meeting of UNITE! two weeks ago are planning to reconvene as a full group in order to officially start a new coalition of activist students...
...main goals were to have communication between activists, to have people from different groups share resources, but also to include individuals who aren't associated with any activist groups," Fast said...
Hardy souls who crave still more detail on the current tobacco wars may want to dip into The Cigarette Papers (University of California Press; 539 pages; $29.95), a new study of the Brown & Williamson documents that were leaked to antismoking activist Stanton Glantz. Next month will also see the publication of Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (Addison-Wesley; 288 pages; $22) by New York Times reporter Philip J. Hilts...
...Doug Waller. "He was the first agent of a kind of 'Glasnost' for the CIA, and was very unpopular inside the agency because of that." Dismissed by President Ford because the White House believed he was cooperating too freely with congressional investigators, Colby has become a staunch arms control activist, working for many liberal causes and organizations. His latest venture involves an interactive CD-ROM spy game, "Spycraft: The Great Game," where he plays himself opposite ex-KGB General Oleg Kalugin...
...Unabomber, given all of his media exposure, has turned into a symbol for outsiders who are disgruntled with the way things are going in America. Like the country at large, the Harvard community considers activists to be dangerous. Being an activist therefore means accepting the role as a "threat." Sometimes activists push that idea a little far by actively associating themselves with known threats: a.k.a. the Unabomber...