Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia clinic's "success" has invigorated others who feel they have been slighted by the so-called "pro-life" movement's efforts. The town of Brookline, Mass--branded as unpatriotically liberal during the last presidential campaign--is invoking the wrath of RICO against Operation Rescue. Brookline is home to several abortion clinics and has therefore been the target of repeated protests. The town wants money for police overtime and injuries incurred by officers in the line of duty...
...three goals: to preserve the memory of those who lived and died for democracy in China; to be a resource for the Harvard' Cambridge and Greater Boston community on the events that occurred this past spring and summer; and to be a center of attention for the pro-Democracy movement at Harvard...
Honecker's replacement, 52-year-old Egon Krenz, has a reputation as a hard-liner opposed to the growing pro-democracy movement. The state-run news agency ADN said Krenz will take over as Communist Party chief, head of state and head of the military, replacing his mentor in all three roles...
...choice must compromise. The movement is willing to settle because it wants to keep the decision out of the hands of Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court's most outspoken foe of abortion. Scalia criticized the majority opinion in this summer's Webster case for not going far enough in overturning Roe v. Wade, which first recognized a constitutional right to abortion...
...paper emphasized the country's communist system will stay firmly in place, and it left out the growing pro-democracy opposition movement from a list of discussion partners about possible reforms...