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JAMES MacGREGOR BURNS, historian (Williams College): Very few widely known living Americans meet my rather exacting criteria of leaders who transform. John Sawyer was such a leader as president of Williams College during the 1960s, when he led the college in achieving badly needed social and educational reforms. Nationally, Cesar Chavez may be such a leader today...
FRANCES FITZGERALD, writer (Fire in the Lake): Barry Commoner, Ralph Nader and Cesar Chavez are possibilities. Nader and Chavez are leaders on a grand scale. Their thinking is original and they have the ability to make things happen. It is characteristic of American society today that the antiwar movement, women's movement, antinukes have a collective leadership...
GLORIA STEINEM, editor and feminist organizer: Bella Abzug and Andrew Young are the only two leaders of our time who have successfully transposed social movements into the electoral system. Cesar Chavez and Carolyn Reed [director of the National Committee on Household Employment] have redefined work and taken forward the movement to organize the lowest, least paid in the working force. And John Kenneth Galbraith is almost the only link between economic knowledge and the public...
...fears. The junta appointed a 15-member Cabinet dominated by moderates, which satisfied American insistence that the new regime should represent all shades of Nicaraguan political opinion. Among its members are Corporate Lawyer Joachin Cuadra Chamorro, Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim, who was rector of the National University, and Cesar Amador Khull, a former officer of the Inter-American Development Bank. There are only two hard-core radicals: a Sandinista commander, Tomás Borge Martinez, who was appointed Interior Minister, and the Rev. Ernesto Cardenál Martinez, a radical priest who was named Minister of Culture...
Chief organizer of the protest was Folk Singer Joan Baez, who sent a letter to 350 onetime activists and celebrities asking them to sign the ad. Among the 84 who did: Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, Allen Ginsberg, I.F. Stone, William Styron. Others, however, turned down Baez on the grounds that they suspected the accuracy of the reporting out of Viet Nam or that they still could not forgive the U.S. for its role in the war. Jane Fonda would not sign even after a personal appeal from Baez. William Kunstler, perennial attorney for underdog litigants reportedly explained his refusal...