Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fever, "the party is just starting to chew solid food again, so it's better to take it in small bites," says Galen. But after Monica, the G.O.P. is divided between hard-liners who cannot abide the thought that Clinton got away and moderates who are worried that the "activist base"--the Christian right and other conservatives who will figure strongly in campaign 2000--is leading the G.O.P. to the loss of both the presidency and the House. All predictions are tentative right now, says William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, but he wouldn't be surprised...
DIED. MARIUS SCHOON, below, right, 61, white South African antiapartheid activist; of lung cancer; in Johannesburg. Schoon was jailed for 12 years for a failed attempt in the '60s to bomb a police building. In 1984 his wife and daughter were killed by a mail bomb sent at the behest of a police official who later admitted to the crime. Said President Nelson Mandela: "He destroyed the myth that all Afrikaners were racists and oppressors...
...fight them tooth and nail. We'll fight them every day [to defeat this bill]," said Brian Jones, an anti-death penalty activist...
Heston objected to the term "African American," noting that, when he worked with civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., society was less sensitiv about terminology...
Because of the city's overwhelming Democratic majority, the electoral debates will focus on issues rather than partisanship, according to Mary Goldstein-Gelb, a Somerville volunteer activist...