Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Burgoyne is still complaining about the high rent of Harvard property and wants the University to do something about it," says Adams Co-Master Jana M. Kiely. "The University should provide affordable housing," Kiely, a part-time Cambridge activist, quotes him as saying...
Plans for Watch activities include "issuingreports, writing and publishing articles, holdingcommunity meetings on issues facing theUniversity" and pursuing an "activist role [inwhich] I will try to democratize the University towhatever extent I am able," Weissman said...
...hearing in City Hall, representatives of various artistic and activist organizations asked the council to take steps to protect the buildings...
...week were an eclectic roll call of America's ethnic heritage; among the recipients were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Walter Cronkite and Muhammad Ali. But the list was even more varied than the award's sponsors realized. James Tamer, 74, a Michigan country-club owner honored as a Lebanese-American activist, turned out to be a convicted felon as well. Tamer served five years for a 1934 bank robbery. In 1979 federal prosecutors alleged he had operated a Las Vegas hotel casino as a front man for Vito Giacalone, a reputed member of the Detroit Mafia. Before Jackie, Walter...
...days in the '60s. Back then, as a student at the University of Massachusetts, Gere got involved with S.D.S. and marched on the Pentagon but later "dropped out of politics and became very cynical," he says. However, after a trip to El Salvador last summer, he felt the old activist itch and decided to campaign against aid for the contras in Nicaragua. Last week the actor hit the hustings in upstate New York, livening up fund raisers for Democratic Congressional Candidates , Rosemary Pooler of Syracuse, his hometown, and Louise Slaughter of Rochester. As he went door to door speaking...