Word: activists
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...reasons for black disaffection are easy to discern. For one thing, blacks have suffered badly during the current economic slump. Their jobless rate of 18.8% is almost double the general level. The Reagan Administration's conservative rhetoric, combined with its assaults on Big Government, activist courts and social welfare programs, have been interpreted by blacks as covert attempts to undermine the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement. Reviewing the record of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since Reagan took office, a bipartisan task force of Washington lawyers charged last week that "the Administration...
Kohl Christian a taste for politics as a teen-age activist for the Christian Dem ocratic Union. When he was elected to the legislature of his native state, Rhineland-Palatinate, Kohl, then a raw youth of 29, let it be known that he would be Chancellor "before too long." For a time, it appeared that he might. He became the youngest minister-president (governor) of his state in 1969 and, four years later, the youngest national chairman of the C.D.U. But he missed becoming West Germany's youngest Chancellor when Schmidt's coalition narrowly triumphed...
...easier politically not to give than to take away. Harvard's spurning of the third world center request wasn't killing a sacred cow so much as refusing to establish a new one. RUS and the Clearinghouse, on the other hand, are traditions, remnants of an activist era still remembered fondly. The University obviously feels anxious to do away with such nettlesome relics. But in picking a fight with Harvard's women, instead of being satisfied with the status quo, it may be getting into its own Vietnam--a needless fight from which it cannot emerge victorious, only tired...
...past year Florida's inmate population had a net gain of 4,457, and the prisons remain overcrowded despite the completion of a new Florida prison every eight months, on average, since 1974. "The South has been punitive all along," says the Rev. Joe Ingle, a Southern penal activist. With its currently teeming prisons, "it is in the process of affirming how punitive it can be." But many Northern prisons have impossible overcrowding problems of their own. During just the first eight months of 1982, California's inmate population grew nearly 12%. Illinois prison officials plan to build space...
...Chicago's Catholics that is plenty. Observes Lay Activist John McDermott, "He's coming into the wake of a disaster, and there is so much good will and hope that he will succeed that he has a lot going for him." Mayor Jane Byrne immediately pronounced, "He is very definitely going to be a people's archbishop...