Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SASC issues a 48-page report criticizing a proposed University program to send Harvard students on internships to South Africa. The activist group urged the program's planners to consult more Black South Africans and to structure the internships so as to benefit the Black majority population there...
...Michael Turk, president of the Harvard Tenants Union and a housing activist, said that the board should have taken Harvard to court...
Mikulski calls herself a "definite Democrat." Her ten-year record in Congress offers a clue to that somewhat murky label: she is an activist and a populist. She supports the Equal Rights Amendment, affirmative action and a woman's right to an abortion. Chavez, a former Democrat who became a Reagan Republican upon accepting a White House staff appointment 17 months ago, takes the opposite stand on each of those controversial issues. Before Reagan appointed her staff director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in 1983, Chavez worked on civil rights enforcement in the Carter Administration (she now considers Carter...
...greatest and most meaningful moments in my life." So said a deeply moved Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., after an emotional 70-minute meeting last week with Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned South African black activist. Winnie Mandela also admitted to being moved by the American's visit to her red brick home in Soweto, the sprawling black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Calling King "a symbol of what my people continue sacrificing for," she added, "We draw a great deal of inspiration from her strength and courage." For King...
...pragmatic liberal. His progressive stance on arms control and a nuclear freeze is not burdened by a doctrinaire and impractical refusal to fund all weapons systems. Such a compromising congressman is what is needed in Washington, not a representative who answers the right questions to get the right activist groups to back him and then caves in to the realities of Capitol Hill...