Word: activists
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...sinful. Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, chairman of the Mayo Clinic's board of governors, was named to head the commission's inquiry. Mayberry has confessed that he is "no AIDS expert." Indeed, the makeup of the commission struck many as a recipe for inaction rather than progress. Fumed AIDS Activist Ann McFarren: "President Reagan's appointments are unconscionable." Reagan, however, defended his choices during a hospital tour and even held an AIDS-afflicted baby. "When it comes to stopping the spread of AIDS," said he, "medicine and morality teach the same lessons...
Last November, Carter was one of 14--including activist Abbie Hoffman--arrested at an anti-CIA protest at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In April, the group was acquitted of misdemeanor charges and several counts of disorderly conduct...
Despite some changes, federal authority is still extensive, and LaDonna Harris, a Comanche activist who was married to Oklahoma's former Democratic Senator Fred Harris, says the result has been a "long era of unilateral decision making by Euro-American 'experts' on the needs of Indian people." The Indians, whose civilization was based on consensual democracy, were pushed toward the contentiousness of majority rule, without most of the rights that go with it. In 1924 Congress granted citizenship and the vote to all Indians. But it was not until 1968 that Congress extended guarantees of free speech and due process...
Reagan the activist surprised his adversaries in his first years, and he extended the reach of the Commander in Chief throughout the world, only to run afoul of something called the Boland amendment in the Iran-contra affair. Through the summer the constitutional issue of just how much war a President can make without congressional approval will be argued and reargued...
...lawyer in Wilmington, Biden flirted with the moderate G.O.P. establishment while clerking for a Republican firm. "I thought of myself as a Republican for six or seven months, no longer," he says. He quickly found more stimulating work as an assistant to a Democratic activist who specialized in criminal and negligence cases. In 1970, just two years out of law school, Biden ran successfully as an underdog candidate for the local county council. Even before he took his council seat, he was planning his next campaign, against Caleb Boggs, Delaware's Republican Senator who was generally regarded as unbeatable. After...