Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eighteen Boston University students yesterday continued an eight-day hunger strike protesting the school's $19 million investment in companies doing business in South Africa...
...taken any action against the fasters, but Dean of Students Ronald L. Carter said that, "If [Abramowitz] thinks that his hunger strike is going to force us to change our position, I can only say that I will take him to the hospital when he falls into a coma...
...political popularity from having spent seven years in Somoza's prisons. In 1967, he was captured and jailed for participating in a bank robbery. During his incarceration, Ortega composed poetry. His most famous is called "I Never Saw Managua When Miniskirts Were in Fashion." After years of hunger--and, he claims, torture--he was freed in 1974 when a group of Sandinistas barged into a fancy Managua Christmas party, took a number of guests hostage and successfully demanded that Somoza release ! certain guerrillas, among them Ortega. He was then hustled off to Cuba, where he trained for several months under...
...transvestite famous for offering sexual services to prison inmates. A woman who has risked madness, and at least temporarily succumbed to it, by volunteering to abstain from TV for a month. A clairvoyant, a mafioso, a crusader on a hunger strike until people stop hunting birds, a troupe of midgets who make up the world's smallest Spanish-dance ensemble...
Income is generated from the interest on a new million dollar public service endowment. Public Service Program $18,110 Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program $10,000 CityStep $3515 Cyclists Fighting Hunger $3000 Office of Career Services/Lamont Fellowship $2000 Francis de Celle $1500 Currier House Dance Marathon $500 Centro Presente $500 Children's Theater $500 Suzuki Program $500 Money spent this year: $43,000 Funding held over until next year...