Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funds, which are legally owed to Panama. Moreover, under the terms of the canal treaty, the American administrator of the PCC must be replaced by a Panamanian by January 1990. The U.S. Senate will have to approve the candidate, and if he is closely linked to Noriega, a bitter fight is certain...
Twenty years ago--when the ROTC issue exploded on campus--no mention was made of the military's discrimination against gays and lesbians. Why, 20 years later, did activists choose to fight ROTC on that platform, often to the exclusion of other arguments...
...minute debate was spent discussing whether institutions of higher education should be involved with military programs. In an opening statement, Felicia A. Kornbluh '88-'89, founder of the Subterranean Review and a member of the Anti-ROTC Action Committee (ARAC), said that because "the military is made to fight wars, and not necessarily wars of defense," it does not belong on university campuses...
...some council members apparently didn't get the message until after week's worth of front-page press and highly visible protests. During this storm of contention, no one noticed that the council's constitution also calls upon the body to fight against discrimination on the basis of economic disadvantage. There, in the very same sentence of the council charter, the rights of the gay community are upheld along with the rights of the economically disadvantaged. The council constitution provides no guide in this no-win situation. The only appeal is to debate on the merits of the issue, something...
Leib stressed the same problem, saying, "There is a problem with money. We need lobbying for funding at the statewide and federal levels." She recalled her fight against Proposition 2-1/2, which limited city revenues from property taxes...