Word: activists
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...activist slate, a new ad hoc committee on University investment will attempt to revive the issue of Harvard's South African stockholdings by sponsoring a February student petition drive. The committee also hopes to define the council's relations with an independent, divestment-linked student gift fund, the Endowment for Divestiture...
...commissions. In Mondale's view, such assignments almost inevitably turn into trivial pursuits. It is no accident that most of Quayle's tutors were right of center. His instincts are deeply conservative, and though he insists he will not act as a "spear carrier" for the right, one conservative activist views him as a potential provider of "political intelligence" about what is going on in the Administration. Bush aides, however, see Quayle as an envoy to, rather than from, the right, "another set of eyes and ears" for the President. Says one: "If Dan Quayle can act as an address...
BOSTON--As a small group of pro-choice demonstrators led by activist Bill Baird picketed outside, more than 500 people crowded Faneuil Hall yesterday to hear Cardinal Bernard Law lead a rally against abortion...
Outside Faneuil Hall, a small group of pro-choice protesters chanting and carrying signs, and led by longtime pro-abortion activist Bill Baird picketed the building. Opposite them, a group of about 40 anti-abortion protesters walked in an identical circle as a cadre of police officers watched...
Despite his regime's performance, Barry is still popular with black voters. "People are quick to forget all that he's done for us," says public- housing activist Kimi Gray. In racially divided Washington, white residents of comfortable neighborhoods in the city's northwest seldom stray into the areas where most black citizens dwell. Many blacks believe that whites are following a devious "plan" to regain political control of the District by embarrassing black officials. The mayor has survived by playing on that fear and, like any good political boss, distributing favors to his constituents...