Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...39th District. But that was before Roman Catholic Bishop Leo Maher ordered that Democratic candidate Lucy Killea, 67, be refused Communion because of her pro-choice views on abortion. Though Maher declared that his action was "more pastoral than political," it quickly became the most important issue in the campaign. Riled by the bishop's intervention, voters gave Killea a 51%-to-49% upset victory over state legislator Carol Bentley in a special election...
...President to attend a drug summit in Colombia early next year. "Barco is an engineer, and so he took a while to make up his mind," says a U.S. official. "But now that he's taken a decision to fight these guys, he's unshakable." But if Barco's campaign is lauded by the politicians in Washington, it has more than its share of deserters among the politicians in Colombia. Aware that the specter of an American jail cell remains the drug bosses' darkest nightmare, the Colombian Supreme Court last October upheld Barco's use of executive powers to extradite...
...Earth Day 1970 was almost spontaneous, next year's sequel has become a strategic operation. Hayes, who was a 25-year-old Harvard law student when he temporarily dropped out of school to help organize the first Earth Day, is the driving force behind the current campaign. With principal funding from foundations and individuals, Earth Day 1990 has a 115-member American board of directors that includes prominent environmentalists, politicians, business executives, religious leaders, celebrities, labor officials and journalists, among others. There is an international arm with representatives from 33 countries...
...Earth Day 1990 headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., 20 staff members are plotting strategy as if the event were a political campaign. "We're organizing neighborhoods, regions and special constituencies," says communications director Diana Aldridge. The group has taken a few marketing cues from Madison Avenue as well. As part of a drive to raise $3 million, Earth Day 1990 is licensing its logo, which will be plastered on everything from coffee mugs to windbreakers. Posters and ads will soon appear carrying the slogan EARTH DAY 1990: WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE WORLD...
...Sokol-Kiev club is on its second North American tour in four years. In its last American campaign, the soviet team tallied eight victories against only one loss. This time around the results have been similarly positive--the club is coming off two straight wins against Boston College and the Maine Mariners, a farm club in the Boston Bruins organization...