Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First-time challenger Ed Cyr says he is "trying to bring the Al Vellucci phenomenon into the 1980s." The former student activist favors rent control--but brags of his French Canadian ethnic roots in North Cambridge and calls the CCA a "wine-and-cheese organization...
...Donald Woods, a white anti-apartheid newspaper editor (Kevin Kline). Coming next spring is Atlantic's A World Apart, about a family caught in the racial strife of the 1960s, with Barbara Hershey. Also planned: The Long Weekend, to star Julian Sands as Neil Aggett, the first white activist to die in jail...
...judicial restraint: People on both sides are painting me as a conservative activist, predicting I'll do revolting or admirable things. It's not true. I simply believe in judicial restraint. An activist is somebody who tries to run his own preferences into the law. I either don't have them, or I keep them...
...Aborigines remain skeptical of Hawke's proposal. A treaty will take more than a year to complete, if one can be put together at all. By then the bicentennial, the Aborigines' best opportunity to be heard, will be over. Says Rights Activist Galarrwuy Yunupingu: "We will not be satisfied with a few hurried crumbs while white Australians get the rest of the birthday cake." That is one warning Hawke cannot ignore if he wants to be the host of a successful party...
First-time challenger Ed Cyr says he is "trying to bring the Al Vellucci phenomenon into the 1980s." The former student activist favors rent control--but brags of his French Canadian ethnic roots in North Cambridge and calls the CCA a "wine-and-cheese organization...