Word: downes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SIT down. Breathe. Relax.
It seemed a small thing, hardly ground for arrest. For two weeks a tiny group of Bulgarian environmentalists called Ecoglasnost manned a table in a Sofia park to gather signatures on a petition calling for public debate on two controversial river-diversion schemes. They had collected nearly 7,000 names...
As an ideological earthquake rocks the Soviet empire, fracturing the social, political and economic arrangements that have guided East bloc relations since 1945, the first impulse is to check its force on the Richter scale. But the next task, the part where the debris must be cleared away and planners...
Oliver and Waldeck win over listeners because they are entertainers first and crusaders second. Dressed in T shirts and sneakers, they mix humor with their anger, and fun with their activism. In one number, Waldeck strolls around the stage under an umbrella. The lyric: "I walk the shores of Lake...
The audience generally gets into the act. Are there any other performers who stir a crowd to let out coyote yelps? And when Waldeck climbs up on a chair and incites Sierra Clubbers to join the "Woodpecker Rebellion," they seem ready to lie down in front of bulldozers.