Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student government activist as both an undergraduate and graduate student. Butler also advised the student assembly at the University of Hiroshima while working in Japan. Here at Harvard, he sees his role not as an advisor, but as a support for the Council members...
...crossed a pro-life picket line to attend a fund-raising event sponsored by the United Way. He later explained that Catholics should not withhold funds from all United Way charities just because some of them oppose the church's teaching on abortion. Says Dan Daley, a Catholic activist who heads the lay group Chicago Call to Action: "He is building up a reservoir of trust, faith and good will so he will have a solid following when the tough questions come along...
Vetenin civil rights activist Anna A. Hedgeman warned Radelitte audience yesterday that America's failure to educate itself about life history and achievements of its Black and female citizens unpainted ability to understand the rest of the worth...
NEBRASKA. In a state that gave Reagan his third largest majority (72%) in 1980, and where the unemployment rate (5.5%) is among the lowest in the U.S., how does a liberal young Democrat, a former antiwar activist, beat a conservative, competent G.O.P incumbent? "Extraordinary political organization," says Democratic State Chairman Dianna Schimek, "and his charismatic ability to motivate people...
...when Vallely reflects on the war, he speaks in a slow, serious tone about how Vietnam transformed him from a "very ordinary guy not trying to be anything but ordinary" into "a very seriously politicized and involved activist...