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...years from 1968 through 1982, Klstiakowsky took his message to the American people by becoming an outspoken critic of the government and its handling of nuclear weapons policy. Ironically, this was the man who had put the first nuclear weapon together with his own hands who had done so under a "native" trust in the wisdom and judgement of the government leaders, and believing that these weapons would make the world a safer place. Half a lifetime later, he became entirely devoted to trying to "undo the nuclear weapons." under the conviction that the world is drifting toward nuclear...
Daniel Ortega, Saavedra, 37, head of Nicaragua's revolutionary junta and a leading member of the ruling nine-man National Directorate, is perhaps his country's most outspoken opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. His two-hour interview with TIME last week was heavy with criticism of what he sees as U.S. attempts to undermine Sandinista rule. Excerpts...
...political fire storm changed his mind, and until recently was criticized for lax enforcement of fair housing laws. William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, has angered blacks with his apparent insensitivity to their concerns and his outspoken opposition to busing and affirmative action...
Columnist Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News and the stereotypical New York City policeman have much in common: both are Irish Catholic, beefy, outspoken and known to take a drop. Usually relations between the commentator and the constabulary have been fraternal. Last week, however, Breslin had the boys in blue seeing red. In denouncing the dismissal of a policewoman who posed nude for a skin magazine before becoming an officer, Breslin accused the police department of a double standard. "Wallowing in filthy sex" is common among officers, he charged...
...share of history. Best known for initiating the Dump Johnson movement in 1967 a movement whose success stunned political leaders. Lowenstein was also one of the first to take on the evils of racial discrimination in Mississippi and organize students against the war in Vietnam. He was an outspoken opponent of the apartheid regime in South Africa, a lighter for individual rights in the Soviet Union, and a dedicated critic of what he termed the "institutional inertia" of Congress and the United Nations--a stance that earned him seventh place on the Nixon White House "enemies list...