Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after all, precisely because the government feels no obligation to provide adequate financial aid to students of all backgrounds that some are driven to "the selling away of four years of life to get an education," as activist Jaron Bourke...
...elections was the bloc of 750 seats reserved for official and public organizations. But even there, insurgency reigned. Leaders of the Soviet Academy of Sciences produced a limp slate of 23 nominees for their 20 reserved seats, pointedly excluding physicist Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel laureate and human-rights activist. But the membership voted down 15 of them, which means that the academy's leaders must come up with new candidates, presumably including Sakharov this time. The Soviet Peace Committee, a goodwill and propaganda organization, was allotted five seats. Among those elected by the group was Patriarch Pimen, head...
McKean added that the forum was also aimed atshowing that the 1960s activist has notdisappeared...
Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid's (HRAAA) fight to force the University's divestment from its South African-related investments is far from over, but the activist group this week claimed a small victory against the administration...
When hundreds of Harvard students stormed University Hall 20 years ago tomorrow, at least one activist faction favored the abolition of the Harvard Corporation...