Word: activists
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...public park risked a police rousting. But as the numbers of dispossessed grew, and police began cracking down, Santa Barbara came in for increasing criticism and ridicule. Last week, as Doonesbury Cartoonist Garry Trudeau lampooned Santa Barbara in his comic strip and Mitch Snyder, a Washington-based activist, threatened to march on Santa Barbara on Labor Day with thousands of homeless people, the city council relented. Overnight sleeping will soon be permitted in certain designated public areas, including undeveloped, city-owned lots, and cars parked on city streets. After next week, however, the parks will be closed after dark...
...Colorado bar were "seriously defective." Also attached was an affidavit from former Colorado District Court Judge Roger Cisneros, who had been on the Colorado bar investigating committee. Cisneros suggested that the committee members who voted against Rose did so because of their impression that he was "an activist . . . not the kind of person they wanted...
This more activist judiciary has been chipping away at the powers the government assumed when it imposed emergency regulations on June 12. The first challenge concerned a detained black television sound man. A Transvaal Supreme Court ruled in July that the sound man had been arrested in bad faith, and ordered his release. A week later a three-judge Supreme Court panel in Durban set aside parts of the emergency regulations, charging that the sections dealing with "subversive statements" were a "lot of nonsense." Then came last week's ruling invalidating all detentions in parts of Natal province...
...abilities when he runs for the presidency in 1988, the Vice President, wearing a dark blue skullcap, was photographed kissing Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, visiting the Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust, touring a kibbutz and chatting earnestly with Natan (formerly Anatoly) Shcharansky, the Jewish human rights activist released by the Soviet Union in February...
Most damaging were the charges that in the early '60s Rehnquist intimidated black and Hispanic voters at polling places in Phoenix, where he was then a local Republican activist, by questioning their ability to read. Until 1964, it was legal in Arizona to challenge a person's right to vote on the grounds of illiteracy. In a 1971 letter to the Senate after his confirmation hearings, Rehnquist stated categorically that he had not "personally engaged in challenging the credentials of any voter." This time around he was more circumspect. First he claimed that his function on Election...