Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University-affiliates filed grievances with the CRR to bring activist students to trial. Subsequently, most of the students were given warnings, some were temporarily suspended, some expelled and others told never to show then faces at Harvard again...
...program, a branch of New York's public high school system, was named in honor of the San Francisco official and homosexual activist who was murdered in 1978 along with that city's mayor, George Moscone. Housed in space rented from the Washington Square United Methodist Church, it is administered by the city's board of education in conjunction with the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth, a private advocacy group. Board of education officials pointed out last week that Harvey Milk is only one of 38 adjunct school programs in New York. Others serve drug addicts...
...American Jewish Congress, gives "no aid or succor to anyone who wants prayer in the public schools." Agreeing with that analysis but not the result, Republican Governor John Ashcroft of Missouri, a born-again Christian, denounced the court for its "phobic response to the six-letter word prayer." Conservative Activist Paul Weyrich, recalling earlier obscenity cases, objected, "It means the f-word is protected, but you still can't think God." Cried Michigan State Representative Ethel Terrell: "What has happened in the Supreme Court is unconstitutional, according to the Constitution...
...Saundra M. Graham, who is now a state representative, led about 20 Cambridge residents and seniors onto the Commencement stage during a speech by University Marshal William Anderson. The community activist pulled the microphone out of Anderson's hand and told the audience why Harvard should set aside its property near Peabody Terrace for low-income housing...
...contain the contras. But the Sandinistas do not seem to have a strategy for the domestic disenchantment that has begun to seep even into their own ranks. In Managua's Barrio Riguero slum, a stronghold of militance during the 1979 insurrection against former Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a Sandinista activist named Maria says she remains faithful to the revolution's principles, but "life is getting harder." The main problem: "Basic necessities cost more and more, and some items are almost impossible to find...