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...There are signs of change. A small but growing movement of gay activists is making its voice heard in southern African states like Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Inevitably, the most outspoken campaigners are still harassed. In Zambia, the government has refused to register gay groups as official organizations. And in Zimbabwe in 1999, government appointees on a commission charged with drafting a new constitution booed and howled when members of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe called for the inclusion of a sexual orientation clause. Still, a decade ago such a proposal would have been unthinkable. "There is growing...
CHARGED. MOSTAFA TAJZADEH, 43, outspoken reformist Iranian deputy Interior Minister and close ally of embattled President Mohammad Khatami, on charges of vote-rigging during last February's parliamentary elections, at a closed-door hearing; in Tehran. Tajzadeh has come under renewed fire from hardliners following his appointment two months ago as supervisor of the presidential elections due next summer...
...never deterred from her purpose, and that was to get a good education.... I respected her for that," Goldman says. "Amy was never very outspoken--she stayed very quiet. However, whenever you asked her about something, she had a thoughtful opinion. She just never broadcast that...
...jail was supposedly so prevalent that Brown campaigned on auditing the books, firing the culprits and replacing three decades of cronyism. "Clean it up," his supporters had shouted into bullhorns the year before as they drove slowly through the towns of Decatur and Lithonia, taking Brown's homespun, outspoken style and reformist message to predominantly black neighborhoods. He was the kind of man who spoke his mind, but he did not think anyone would kill him for it. Says Phyllis: "The scary thing about this is anything is possible. It could have been somebody who was just pissed off about...
Although the board of regents ended up unanimously choosing him, one regent did voice concerns about Bollinger's outspoken style on politicized issues...