Word: activists
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Despite a pending lawsuit by the Beverly Hills Restaurant Association, it is unlikely the law will be repealed. "Posterity may find that this ban was well ahead of its time," says Patrick Reynolds, an antismoking activist and Beverly Hills resident who saw his father die of emphysema. He is the grandson of R.J. Reynolds, founder of the famed tobacco company...
Ashoka funds people in a variety of fields, ranging from education to medicine to waste managment, who propose innovative solutions to their countries' problems. Fellows include a Bombay woman who has established a system to replace rote learning in the schools and a Brazilian consumer activist...
Jesse Jackson will address the rally, as will Eleanor Smeal, the head of the National Organization of Women (NOW). Randi Forsberg, and prominent disarmament activist will speak, along with a member of the African National Congress (ANC). A woman from COMADRES, a group of relatives of victims of Salvadoran death-squads, will join them, and so will a student activist leader from Berkeley. Religious and labor leaders have prominent places in the program, and rumors abound that Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen may lend their support...
...John Paul replied. "People would want to tell us to 'stay in the sacristy, do nothing else.' They say it is politics, but it is not politics -- this is what we are." In answer to another question, he described the country's system of government as "currently dictatorial." Indeed, activist Chilean Catholic bishops and priests, along with a coalition of centrist and leftist political parties, want Chile to follow the examples of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay, whose military governments have given way to civilian rule since...
...tough omnibus trade bill that passed the House of Representatives last year but died in the Senate. One version of the new bill is expected to reach the House floor on April 28, the day before Nakasone's visit. Says Senator Max Baucus of Montana, a leading congressional activist on trade issues: "The President's semiconductor action is sort of a turning point. We're going to stop talking and start taking action...