Word: outspoken
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...from other countries in the battle against pollution. Said Mikhail Gorbachev in a speech to the conference: "The time is ripe to set up an international mechanism for technological cooperation on environmental protection." The need for a Soviet cleanup could hardly be more urgent. According to Alexei Yablokov, the outspoken deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet's ecology committee, as many as 50 million Soviet citizens live in areas where pollution levels are at least ten times as high as state safety standards permit. In parts of the Aral Sea region, which is heavily contaminated by chemical fertilizers and pesticides...
...from the red since 1985. Turner, meanwhile, has become an advocate for a range of liberal causes. In an industry in which executives are careful to keep political views to themselves (except perhaps for flag waving during Bicentennial celebrations), Turner is that rare bird: a TV chieftain with an outspoken conscience...
...Havel, 53, actually were an enemy of the society in which he grew up, it would be understandable. Long before he was singled out for his outspoken politics and insurrectionist art, he was subjected to discrimination because he was born to wealth. His father was a real estate developer. An even richer uncle owned hotels and the Barrandov movie studios, which remain the center of Czechoslovak filmmaking. One of his English-language translators, Czech emigre Vera Blackwell, has said, "If Czechoslovakia had remained primarily a capitalist society, Vaclav Havel would be just about the richest man in the country." Instead...
Tokes ran afoul of authorities last August in an outspoken interview with Hungarian television. Among other things, he attacked Bucharest's plan to raze up to 8,000 villages and resettle their residents in high-rise apartment complexes. Some 50,000 ethnic Hungarians would be relocated in the program, which has brought denunciations from international human rights groups and strained relations with the Budapest government...
...million citizens had a long list of grievances, from shortages of - food and fuel to crushing boredom, but the proximate cause of the civil explosion was the Securitate. When its officers tried to arrest an ethnic Hungarian clergyman in the western city of Timisoara (pop. 309,000) for his outspoken opposition to the government and to the policies of his own Hungarian Reformed Church, a vigil outside his house erupted into an antiregime riot. Angry mobs smashed shopwindows, burned Ceausescu's books and portraits, and besieged party headquarters and police stations. About 60,000 of the country's 1.7 million...