Word: outspoken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Their targets: Xu Wenli, 37, and Yang Jing, about 30, the editors of a hand-mimeographed dissident newsletter, April Fifth Forum, named for a 1976 antigovernment demonstration. Though Chief Editor Xu scrupulously avoided outright criticism of China's leaders and shunned the label of dissident, he has been outspoken in demanding more freedom of expression. Last year he noted that "if only views that echo the leadership are allowed, there is no way to speak of real freedom of speech." Though April Fifth Forum had a circulation of only 1,000 before publication was suspended early last year...
Obviously, the black leaders were not gratified by a concurrent development in South Africa last week. Two security policemen appeared at the Soweto home of outspoken black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, one of the country's most influential civil rights advocates, and seized his passport. Tutu's apparent transgresssion: a recent tour of the U.S. and Europe during which he tried to bring foreign pressure to bear on the Botha government for an end to South Africa's apartheid policies. Said the unrepentant Tutu after politely handing over the travel document: "Nothing the government does will stop...
...human rights organizations? Are they really, as Mathis claims, "probably the creation of people trying to discredit the El Salvadorean government"? Most of these groups and individuals are non-partisan and far from leftist. They are simply concerned with violations of human life and rights, and the more outspoken members are often persecuted by security forces for their disclosures and condemnations...
DIED. Mark Ethridge, 84, liberal, outspoken journalist who as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times between 1936 and 1963 helped lift both newspapers to national prominence; in Moncure, N.C. Ethridge's Louisville stewardship was distinguished by expanded, gimmick-free news coverage, enlivened writing and makeup, and an editorial page that spoke out strongly against such targets as poverty and racism, the latter of which he once described as "a complete humiliation of all people who profess any faith in democracy...
...competitiveness that makes Gaines outspoken about last year's boycott of the Moscow Olympics. "All the disappointments in my career, my life, could not add up to that one disappointment. I'd rather have one Olympic gold medal than five world records 'cause you just can't take that medal away. I just can't say I beat their times at Moscow and won four gold medals--that's bull, anything could've happened," he sights...