Word: activists
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...great majority of the 13,000 priests and nuns in the Philippines are politically moderate or liberal. The hierarchy was formerly led by Julio Cardinal Rosales, a conservative who tried to stay above politics. But since his death in 1983, many of the clergy have become more activist. A small minority of priests and nuns support the Communist-dominated New People's Army insurgency against Marcos. Few clergy, though, have followed the example of the Rev. Conrado Balweg, who since 1979 has lived in the jungles with N.P.A. fighters...
...case of Shcharansky, a 1970s activist who often met with American journalists and other Western visitors but had neither scientific nor intelligence information at his disposal, proved to be more negotiable. On Jan. 10, when two U.S. Congressmen, Benjamin Gilman of New York and Tom Lantos of California, visited East Berlin and expressed concern about Shcharansky to East German Lawyer Wolfgang Vogel, who had played a crucial role in previous exchanges, Vogel surprised the Americans by telling them he had been given a "mandate" by the Soviet and East German governments to arrange the release...
What happened to youthful activism? The real tragedy of our generation is not that no one wants to be an activist anymore, but that...
Other candidates in the race include Kennedy, State Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown), State Representatives Thomas J. Vallely (D-Back Bay) and Thomas M. Gallagher (D-Brighton), King, James Spiegal of Watertown, Republicans Clark Abt and Mildred Jefferson, and Cambridge activist Carla Johnston, a Democrat...
Stanford's month-old shanties were torn down early this week, while members of the student activist group Stanford Out of South Africa took shelter from a rain storm, said senior Lisa L. Lynch, an editor of The Stanford Daily. The pro-divestment group Thursday rebuilt the two-structure shantytown out of cardboard boxes, Lynch said...