Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Colorful anti-apartheid protests have become almost commonplace at Harvard, grabbing the campus spotlight and overshadowing a legion of her ongoing activist efforts. From the Conservative Club to the Spartacus Youth League, student activism takes many forms. The following selection of would-be movers and shakers runs the gamut from reaction to revolution...
...candidate who is taking an interesting approach to campaign organization is King. The longtime civil rights and tenant activist says he will place ads in newspapers asking for people to apply for jobs as local campaign managers...
Carla Johnston, a Cambridge nuclear arms freeze activist, has also filed with the Federal Election Commission...
Among the nine who have filed are two Republicans: Clark C. Abt, head of the cambridge-based consulting firm Abt Associates; and Dr. Mildred Jefferson, an anti-abortion activist. Abt is viewed as almost sure winner in that field by political observors...
...Harvard University last September, Neznansky, co-author of the thriller Red Square, recalled that one night in 1950, he, Gorbachev and a third man who was active in the Young Communist League, or Komsomol, raised many glasses of beer and vodka together. Gorbachev stayed sober, but the party activist slipped into a stupor. The next day, claimed Neznansky, Gorbachev denounced his friend's drinking before the Komsomol. As a result, said Neznansky, "Gorbachev promptly became the new Komsomol organizer, and that's when his path to the Kremlin began...