Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, of course, those same officials waged a vicious campaign against overseers candidates nominated by the pro-divestment group, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA). As it had in past years, HRAAA was simply putting forward an independent slate of candidates to force the University's divestment from companies that do business in South Africa...
When HRAAA's campaign--spearheaded by the candidacy of Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--gained steam, however, top Alumni Association officials launched a bitter attack against the group...
...thanks to the Young Report, the Alumni Association may not have to campaign against pro-divestment overseers candiates, since the elections will already be rigged in the University's favor...
This year's campaign, winding to a close, should have satisfied even the most disputative of New Yorkers. The Republicans are offering former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, while the Democrats are offering David Dinkins, potentially New York's first Black mayor. Meanwhile, current Mayor Ed Koch faces a slight difficulty--specifically, he'll soon be out of work...
...addition to launching an emergency campaign of debt relief, the advanced nations of the North must make available to the desperate nations of the South efficient new technologies that spare the environment while encouraging economic growth. Fortunately, help for the South should not mean only sacrifice in the North. The need for energy-efficient and environmentally useful technologies could create an enormous untapped market -- one that several of the world's economic powers have already begun to explore. At the same time, there are ways for the South to clean up its own act. Some developing nations run up more...