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...have denied them this identity by calling them exactly what they are not--protestors rather than activists, advocates or supporters. In contrast, you call the group of people who rallied to protest military action "activists." This is a correct name for the group and gives the group a positive identity. Those in support of military action deserve a positive identity as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Protestors' Headline Was Misleading | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

Toomey said the proposal would work to correct abuse by upper-income tenants and deterioration of housing units--two of rent control's biggest flaws. He said he constructed the plan to "preserve rent control and strengthen rent control...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Council Split Over Housing Plan | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

...that I necessarily disagree with my stance, I just regret going about the issue the way that I did. Time after time, I have found myself considering what sounds correct instead of what sounds right. More often than not, that has meant neutrality, which in turn has meant complicity. My refusal to take a stand for my principles has done nothing more than enforce the status...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Sometimes You've Just Gotta Take a Stand | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

...effort to relay a message of correct living to the youth of the nation, these books often become condescending and annoying. In their least innocuous form they are boring. In the light of their minimal literary worth, one must ask who is buying these books...

Author: By Suzanne PETREN Moritz, | Title: Morality and Children: Two Views | 1/23/1991 | See Source »

...baldly confirmed that the military had shifted thousands of tanks and artillery pieces across the Urals into Soviet Asia to spare them from the destruction required under the pact. Economist V. Litov, an international-affairs specialist, wrote in the conservative daily Sovietskaya Rossiya that the moves were needed to "correct the errors" of Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Litov called on legislators to reject the conventional-arms treaty. But Soviet diplomats were aghast. Said the liberal paper Moscow News: "The situation has given rise to understandable fears in the West about who is in charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: The Iron Fist | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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