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...been a vocal critic of Sullivan--protesting many of his appearances. At the International AIDS conference this summer in San Franscico, ACT-UP and other gay activist groups drowned out the secretary's speech with a barrage of whistles and threw condoms on the stage...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Activists Picket Sullivan Speech | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

Included among the officials is Lawrence Watson, a former assistant dean at the Graduate School of Design, who was laid off in June in the wake of large budget cuts. Watson has been one of the University's most vocal advocates of affirmative action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: While You Were Away . . . | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...Group of Muslims. The Islamic splinter group, with few ties to the mainstream Muslims who make up 6% of the Trinidad and Tobago population of 1.3 million, espoused a potent mixture of religious fundamentalism and left-wing politics. The self-styled "Imam" traveled to Libya and was a vocal supporter of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, but the main interest of his armed band of militants, he said, was to rid Trinidad of drugs, corruption and poverty. He lived with most of his 300 adherents on a commune on the edge of Port-of-Spain, where he commandeered government land to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trinidad and Tobago: Captain, the Ship Is Sinking | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...park and cruise work, now often guide students toward it. Many performers at the Six Flags park in Gurnee, one of seven in the chain, are funneled there from Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., and what they learned in class helps them survive. "If you don't use proper vocal technique and warm your body up," says Diane Zandstra, 22, a Millikin graduate in her second summer at Gurnee, "you'll hurt yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Where The Stagestruck Get Started | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...ever vocal Anglican left too appears ready to accept the new Archbishop. After all, Carey has raised $900,000 in his diocese for inner-city aid and has written, "I have never found it easy to believe in God." Moreover, Carey strongly supports priesthood for women; he has even asked priests in Bath and Wells to consider resigning if they oppose women's ordination. His appointment, in fact, is read as a signal that church leaders and Thatcher's Tory government assume that women priests will get the go-ahead during the new Archbishop's reign. On the other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dramatic Choice for Canterbury | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

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