Word: melvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, a group of undergraduates--30 by the fast's end--and one professor ended a week-long hunger strike protesting Harvard's investments in South Africa. That fast, which drew national media attention, ended Wednesday with a service in Memorial Church that included remarks from Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King and State Sen. Jack H. Backman. But Shaw said the weekly fasts will seek to involve and educate students rather than following the tactics of the earlier hunger strikers, who sought to attract outside attention. "The only way Harvard will divest is if students take up the issue...
...serious candidates--of whom former School Committee President David I. Finnegan and City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn are considered favorites--offered even less excitement. Former State Representative Melvin H. King reached out to gays, women, the poor, and Blacks--whom he termed the "niggers" of Boston. Suffolk County Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney called for opening the door to City Hall and banishing crime from the streets, presumably enhancing his good-guy image, Flynn copped an FDR line, offering the observation that the role of government is to help those who can't help themselves--which prompted one member...
...eight candidates present were former Boston City Councilor Lawrence S Dicara '71, former School Committee President David I Finnegan, Boston City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn, Suffolk Country Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney '72, former MBTA manager Robert R Kiley, former State Rep. Melvin H King, Boston City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn, Suffolk County Sheriff Dennis J. Kearney '72, former MBTA manager Robert R Kiley, former State Rep. Melvin H. King, Boston City Councilor Frederick Langone, and Socialist Workers' Party candidate Eloise Langer...
...week long protest will culminate in a service tomorrow at Memorial Church Abner A Mason '85 a spokesman for the fasters, said yesterday that both the exiled South African journalist Donald Woods and Boston mayoral, candidate Melvin H. King had agreed yesterday to speak at the 1 p.m. service...
...fasters have invited exiled South African journalist Donald Woods and Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King to speak at the service, but as of last night they had not received replies from either...