Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School Dean Robert C. Clark drew fire from students for eliminating the program--one of his first administrative actions since taking office in July. In the weeks since students returned to classes this fall, the public interest controversy has spurred a petition drive, a new student activist group and a rally which drew hundreds of students and faculty...
...international triumphs have not protected her from some searing reviews at home. "Norway has some of the most polluted fjords in the world," charges Geir Wang-Andersen, a toxic-waste activist for Greenpeace. "People abroad see her as this great environmentalist -- but we just laugh a little, because we don't see her that...
...spirit of peace, love and national reconciliation." But the homecoming of Sam Nujoma, leader of the South West Africa People's Organization, was overshadowed last week by old hatreds and death. Two days before Nujoma's arrival, Anton Lubowski, a Namibian-born lawyer and a prominent white SWAPO activist, was gunned down outside his home in Windhoek. Within 36 hours police announced that they were holding a white man in connection with the killing...
While the occasional street activist will inevitably mumble something about "yankee imperialism" and "ruthless American multinationals," the vast majority of Argentines know better: namely that throughout the past 45 years, their economy, along with the Soviet Union's, has been the world's most mismanaged. In fact, Argentina has become the classic example of a nation that, simply through misguided economic policies, has virtually destroyed its once-competitive position in the world economy...
They were an unlikely pair: a 37-year old union activist who has made a career out of challenging the University and the venerable John T. Dunlop, a former secretary of labor and Harvard dean of the faculty...