Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposition ticket plans to present a different, more activist, vision of the Council than Offut's, which holds that the Council should improve the quality of student life by concentrating only on issues directly affecting undergraduates, members...
...verdict "will not close the chapter on investigations," said Emilio Mignone, a leading human rights activist. "It will do just the opposite, prolong them indefinitely." Indeed, attention quickly turned to the 1,700 cases pending against 300 or so lower-ranking military officers charged with carrying out the dirty war. Said Mignone: "There have to be more trials of military leaders...
With that, Mandela, 51, defied the government restriction that has forbidden her to speak in public for nearly 25 years. A leading antiapartheid activist in her own right, Mandela has endured arrests and solitary confinement. She was banished eight years ago to Brandfort, a remote area of the Orange Free State. But since her home was firebombed by unidentified arsonists in August, she has become increasingly defiant, leaving Brandfort without permission, traveling throughout the country and meeting with the press...
...Although the new solidarity is still fragile, the giant federation of 34 multiracial unions claims some 450,000 members in the country's most vital industries and clearly has the potential to be a major force in South African affairs. Its leaders have already openly committed themselves to an activist role in the antiapartheid struggle. "We are no longer going to be passive," said Barayi. "COSATU is going to govern this country...
...They both returned from Geneva with empty hands but big smiles," Mendelson, a peace activist and authority on arms control, told the audience of 60 assembled in Radcliffe Yard's Longfellow Hall...