Word: activists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CORETTA SCOTT KING, civil rights activist: In terms of impacting the crucial foreign policy issues we face, I believe Andrew Young deserves special recognition. For the first time in American history, the people of the developing nations have a highly committed spokesman to represent their interests to the President and the American people...
...that was only the beginning. Now the union is going after E. Virgil Conway, chairman of the Seamen's Bank for Savings in New York City, who refuses to quit as a director of Stevens. The union is stirring up activist groups against Sea men's by pointing out that the bank makes most of its mortgage loans to borrowers outside metropolitan New York. The ACTWU has also enlisted political, labor and religious groups to help block the bank from opening a branch on Long Is land...
...rule may strike some as draconian, but the bishop is no mossback. He built a reputation as a progressive within the hierarchy during four years as the top staff executive of the U.S. bishops' conference. Since Rausch, 50, arrived in Phoenix two years ago, he has been an activist on such issues as the rights of farm workers and minority hiring, which has drawn him the wrath of the conservative Arizona Republic...
When Richard Nixon appointed four Supreme Court Justices between 1969 and 1973-Chief Justice Warren Burger and Associate Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell-the President fully expected them to halt, if not reverse, the steady expansion of individual rights that had begun under the activist Warren Court. So did many court watchers. But it has not quite turned out that...
...from New York, Alda sets out to block the Supreme Court appointment of a flagrant racist. Well and good, and done with exceptional verity as a result of Alda's research on Capitol Hill. But Tynan gets sidetracked by some unexpected motions. Waylaid by Meryl Streep, as an activist lawyer, he ends up in bed with her, swilling beer and swapping cloakroom stories...