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Sakharov, a 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner and principal developer of the Soviet nuclear capability, has been an outspoken critic of Soviet policy and was exiled in 1980. Bonner was forced to join him in exile four years later...
Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is an ornery and outspoken conservative. Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, the ranking Democrat on Armed Services, is a cool and circumspect moderate. In one way, the two men are very much alike: throughout their careers they have steadfastly supported the U.S. military...
Harvard was unimpressed. Vice President for Government and Public Affairs John Shattuck, an outspoken critic of the tightening grip on academic integrity, voiced fears that the report--which did not make policy recommendations--would bring on its heels new sweeps of classification and restriction. We share those fears, and a Defense Department spokesman's prediction that the report will be used to lobby for a decrease in the number of Soviet scientists allowed to come here and for more pre-publication review did little to dispel them...
Paul M. Bator, Bromley Professor of Law, who last year became embroiled in a conflict over Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a growing movement of radical legal scholars, is a former Reagan appointee and one of the most outspoken conservative voices on the law school campus...
...before a magistrate for participating in the school boycott, the authorities claimed that the younger Tutu had uttered an obscenity and slapped a 14-day detention order on him. When the Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and one of the country's most outspoken opponents of apartheid, vowed that he would go through with the plan to stage a peaceful demonstration to demand the release of Black Politician Nelson Mandela, he was arrested under a law that permits the authorities to hold him indefinitely. Mandela, a principal leader of the African National Congress (A.N.C...