Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are more activists this year but they are not the majority," says Brown History Professor and protestor William McLoughlin, who has been a political activist since the civil rights movement of the 1950's. Activism "never died down but it has picked up considerably," McLoughlin adds...
...comparison between the four defendants and the activist priest incensed auxiliary prosecutors who represent Popieluszko's family and his driver, Waldemar Chrostowski. In his concluding remarks the following day, Edward Wende, the slain priest's longtime attorney, who is representing Popieluszko's brother and the driver, struck back. "I did not think," he said, "that I would be forced to take the stand in the role of defender of the victim. Such a statement by the public prosecutor, which would equate the victim with the hangman without any reason for it, is probably unknown in any court records...
...demand for ordination is perhaps the most fundamental conflict between the church's hierarchy and its militant women critics. "It is the central issue because without it, there is no route to power within the church," says Mary Gordon, a lay activist and author of the novel Final Payments. Arlene Swidler, who teaches religion at Villanova, says simply, "Ordination remains the central issue because it includes everything...
ACQUITTED. Jack Elder, 41, Roman Catholic activist in the sanctuary-movement network of some 200 U.S. church congregations that harbor illegal immigrants fleeing violence-shattered Central American countries; of charges that last March he transported three undocumented Salvadorans from a San Benito, Texas, refuge to a bus station "in furtherance of their illegal presence" in the U.S.; in Corpus Christi, Texas. A federal judge ruled that Elder's conduct was based on his religious beliefs; the jury concluded that Elder's actions did not further the aliens' illegal journey. A Government spokesman says that the verdict will not interfere with...
...forensic expert testified without emotion that the activist priest died from a combination of severe beating, shock, strangulation by the nylon cord with which he had been trussed and from his inability to expel the blood and vomit that flooded through his respiratory system after the attack. Dispassionately, Byrdy held up one of the two rolls of stained gauze that Popieluszko's attackers had forced into their victim's mouth...