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Back on the streets of Belfast, Adams turned his energies toward revitalizing Sinn Fein. "He is a political genius," says Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, a fiery Republican activist in the 1970s. "He has great patience. I've seen him under pressure, and he never loses his temper. He encourages debate and slowly builds consensus so he can take the whole movement along...
...happened so often in the past, Adams' measured words somehow turned violence into a plea for peace. His emergence as one of the key men to reckon with in Northern Ireland has brought him a long way from the rough streets of Belfast, where he began his activist career. Only two days before the attacks, he was rambling through the streets of west Belfast in a cold drizzle. He paused in front of a rubble heap, which for him was a monument to a heroic political struggle, not just the remnants of a high-rise public housing project. "These...
...This is the worst for the defendant, because pretty much all he can do is sit and work on his ulcer," says Cambridge Civic Association activist Jack Martinelli, who has been watching the trial...
People must touch, hug and love those with AIDS for whom no one else will care, spiritual leader and AIDS activist Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati told a standing-room-only audience at the Divinity School yesterday...
Last week petitions circulated in many parts of the country urging the creation of worker and peasant unions and demanding the right to strike. Dissidents also distributed a draft charter for a League for the Protection of the Rights of the Working People of China. Liu Nianchun, a labor activist, defiantly applied for formal registration of the unofficial league, claiming 120 founding members. At least one of them, Yuan Hongbing, was arrested. These organizing efforts are still small, but they worry the Chinese leadership because they could ignite major unrest, especially among urban workers. Inflation is running...