Word: kropp
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DIED. ARTHUR KROPP, 37, president of the liberal lobbying group People for the American Way; from AIDS; in Washington. Kropp went to work for TV producer Norman Lear's organization -- a direct response to Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority -- in 1984. PAW's ranks swelled to 300,000 during Kropp's tenure as it weighed in against Robert Bork and the "flag-burning amendment"-and for gay rights and free speech...
Whatever Reed decides-to press for control of the Republican Party now or to rise above partisanship for a while-the religious right is moving toward center stage in American secular life. Henceforth, Reed told Time, "issues are going to have a moral quotient." The Christian Coalition, says Arthur Kropp of People for the American Way, "won't be content to be background music." They will want the oomph of the big band. And a choirboy will lead them. --With reporting by Laurence I. Barrett, traveling with Ralph Reed, and Richard N. Ostling/New York
...certainly wouldn't rule it out. It depends on what it says." White House advisers downplayed the statement, but it was the first time Clinton ever signaled willingness to play ball on the issue, and GOP leaders, including future House Speaker Newt Gingrich, praised him. But Arthur J. Kropp, president of the progressive People for the American Way, weighed in: "Instead of taking his cues from Newt Gingrich, President Clinton should be standing for the constitutional rights of all schoolchildren."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...bureau's report is far from definitive -- only about 3,000 of 16,000 law-enforcement agencies elected to participate. That may be the survey's most telling statistic, since it suggests that local law enforcement officials need to develop greater sensitivity toward bias offenses. Still, says Arthur Kropp, president of People for the American Way, a liberal lobbying group, the report is important: "It's the first national picture of hate crimes -- and it's an ugly one." The FBI plans to release a more comprehensive report in the spring, as ordered by the Hate Crime Statistics...
...Clearly the Senate should ask Judge Souter to address himself to this document at his confirmation hearings," said Arthur J. Kropp, president of the liberal group People for the American Way. Kropp, whose organization on Monday released copies of New Hampshire's fillings in the 1976 case, said the language in them "suggests a clear sympathy for an anti-abortion viewpoint...