Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aguilar, a former teacher at the University of the Philippines and a journalist, is a prominent Philippine poet and anti-Marcos activist...
...three contestants--Gilbert Fuchsberg '85, Daniel P. Oran '87 and Gary D. Rowe '88--and folk singer/Mondale activist Paul Shea received as prizes mock welfare checks, food stamps, and a handful of jeffy beans...
...ouster. In an effort to mend fences with environmentalists and to restore peace at the Department of the Interior, the Reagan Administration brought in former National Security Adviser William Clark last October as Watt's replacement. Now, on the first anniversary of Clark's succession, two activist organizations, the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth, see only a small improvement over the Watt regime. In a report released last week, the groups have measured Clark's performance and found it wanting. Says the study: "We would give...
...graying and more introspective but still burning with the spirit of protest, Savio, now 41, was back at Berkeley to celebrate the 1964 birth of the Free Speech Movement. Some 3,000 middle-aging rebels and current students gathered at the scene of earlier rallies and listened to the activist's condemnation of U.S. policy in Central America. Savio recently returned to his studies and last May got a B.S. in physics summa cum laude from San Francisco State University. Said he of the movement he sparked: "It has remained for me a brilliant moment when, as a friend...
...would show judicial restraint, who would defer to the authority of the Federal Government. The men he chose did show restraint, but only on economic matters. Two of his appointees, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, went on to lead a revolution in individual rights that culminated in the activist Warren Court era of the 1960s...