Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There will be a high political price to pay for being anti-choice," promises Gloria Allred, a Los Angeles attorney and women's rights activist. Predictions like that will come true, however, only if abortion is made into the kind of litmus test that it has already become for many pro-lifers. Can pro-choice supporters be made single-issue voters, who will elect a candidate who shares their views on abortion even if they disagree with him on defense, taxes or the environment...
...although the protesters agreed to launch a grassroots campus movement, the council's decision appears to have taken the activist community by surprise. At last night's meeting, the group was divided over how to advance its case against ROTC...
Hoffman was 52 when he was found dead last week in his small apartment in New Hope, Pa. He was fully dressed under the bedcovers. An autopsy was inconclusive. In recent years, however, he battled depression. An activist to the end, fighting over the environment and Nicaragua, he found the complacent hum of the present no match for the percussive past...
Walton--himself an anti-war activist who was then playing professional basketball--said, "We had a lousy night. I was feeling pretty low. I was walking through the streets. I was very angry--kicking cans, kicking boxes, kicking dogs. Then suddenly, this short guy pops out of nowhere and says 'Hi Bill, I'm Abbie...
Many of Hoffman's friends and admirers reacted with shock this week to a coroner's report which determined that the 52 year-old activist committed suicide last week. "Abbie was just too full of life to commit suicide. It just wasn't his style," one friend said Wednesday. "If Abbie were going to kill himself, he would have called a press conference first...