Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's second term. They feel alienated from a political system in which they feel they have no voice. They feel threatened by the elaborate technology of surveillance and intrusion now available, by the data banks, credit checks and mandatory drug tests on the job. Tom Hayden, the '60s activist who led the Students for a Democratic Society and is now a California assemblyman, takes a slightly mellower view. "I think this country is freer than I thought true in the 1960s," he says. He worries about the perennial American conflict between individualism and community responsibility. "At this point...
This week Bonner returns to Moscow, and then, presumably, will rejoin her husband in Gorky. Sakharov, a Nobel Peace laureate and leading human-rights activist, was abducted in 1980 from a Moscow street corner and eventually bundled off to the industrial city of Gorky. Bonner, for her part, tirelessly shuttled 250 miles to bring Sakharov food parcels, then returned to Moscow with his latest thoughts for Western journalists, who are barred from Gorky. In 1984 she was convicted of slandering the Soviet system and forced to join her husband in exile...
...more liberal," Lakhdhir says ofthe council in its first year. "There was more ofan activist sense on council." One of thehighlights of Lakhdhir's sophomore spring, shesays, was the establishment of the Endowment forDivestiture (E4D), an alternative to the SeniorClass Gift that holds contributions in escrowuntil Harvard divests of its $416 million in SouthAfrica-related investments. Lakhdhir acted asco-president of E4D this spring...
Nussbaum, who calls himself an activist, saysthat as long as students serve not ondecision-making bodies, but on bodies that makeonly recommendations to the administration,Harvard will remain undemocratic. The council'sfounders had that vision in mind, the Mather Housesenior says, but this year's council faltered...
...raid last week, it was business as usual at the whitewashed single-story headquarters of the African National Congress in downtown Lusaka. An A.N.C. official glanced only casually at visitors as they passed through the half-open steel gate. Within the compound, Oliver Tambo, 68, a lawyer and political activist who became acting president of the organization in 1967, sat inside a cramped and sparsely furnished office, drafting a press statement about the attack. None of the 20 or so staffers on hand seemed unduly alarmed by the raid. "We live with danger every day," shrugged Tom Sebina, an A.N.C...