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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affairs offices of the two schools huddled and dashed off 200 preliminary invitations to the entire legislature. They sent out about 500 invitations three weeks ago, and secured 300 responses. Though officials from neither sponsor would estimate the cost of the affair--which they split--a caterer said it ran to about $15 a head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Before the Game | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...illogical extreme. In contrast with other single issue groups the anti-abortion activists have not been content merely with lobbying. These organizations forthrightly undertook a program to pack Congress with politicians not only sympathetic to, but also actively involved in the right to life movement. In 1976, Ellen McCormack ran for President of the United States on the abortion issue...

Author: By Holls A. ldelson., | Title: Extraordinary Politicians | 9/24/1983 | See Source »

...outlook be reconciled with the reality of the right to life movement and its social implications? Certainly it stands in painful contradiction to the violence peretrated by vehement anti-abortionists; brandishing bloody fetuses at Congressional hearings, invading or even firebombing abortion clinics, and the kidnapping of a couple who ran a clinic...

Author: By Holls A. ldelson., | Title: Extraordinary Politicians | 9/24/1983 | See Source »

...bulls came all at once when Maass ran with the young men of Pamplona through deserted city streets chased by a dozen half-ton animals in the annual "running of the bulls." The custom precedes a bullfight in the town's central arena and is a historic test of bravado...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Vacation: All I Ever Wanted | 9/24/1983 | See Source »

...didn't run very far and I didn't run very long Naturally, however, it was exciting," he says. Adds a companion who observed the event. "He may not have run far, but he certainly ran fast...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Vacation: All I Ever Wanted | 9/24/1983 | See Source »

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