Word: march
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Despite Whiteman's fervor, Butler -- explaining that he did not want to risk exposing his followers to an "AIDS-infected" mob -- decided to call off his parade after local human-rights activists promised to bring in up to 3,000 protesters to stage an opposition march (1,200 showed up last Saturday). Butler had to settle for a diatribe-filled "skinhead seminar" attended by a pathetic audience of some 50 racists at his nearby compound in Hayden Lake...
...choice leaders now say the Washington demonstration is just the beginning of a long campaign to guarantee abortion rights. After the march, they hit the offices of Capitol Hill lawmakers to lobby for a federal law that would keep abortion legal even if the court reverses Roe. Activists dumped 200,000 letters at the Justice Department last week, urging Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to drop his request to the court that it overturn Roe. "This has for the past 15 years been a legal struggle," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It has now become...
...mobilize public support for Roe, pro-choice groups like NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union expect to spend about $2.5 million through June on print and broadcast advertising. And at a meeting in March called by Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, the editors of 16 women's magazines agreed to step up their coverage of the abortion dispute. "I feel we're not holding our ground the way we should," says Brown...
...year period and found that reports as much as double in the three days after school grades are issued. Many experts find that the problem intensifies toward the end of the academic year. Observes Rosalyn Oreskovich, area manager of children's protective services in Seattle: "From March to the end of June, our referral rate will rise dramatically. By spring, the parents' frustration has really built...
...Faculty's steering committee, called the Faculty Council, has been discussing the report since its release in March but has yet to take a vote on the content, Council members said. The body is now discussing a resolution that will frame the Faculty's debate at the May session, Marquand said...