Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director Roger Spottiswode--are sympathetic to the Left here, and with good cause. Even by the not-so-high standards of right-wing Latin American dictatorships, the government of Anastasio Somoza was a sorry lot, oozing corruption and brutality. And yet Under Fire is able to transcend a doctrinaire manifesto for the Revolution, and instead presents simply a reasoned appeal for common sense. In a word, the movie is believable, and the case made for the Sandinistas is more convincing than, say a heavy-handed Costa-Gavras would have us believe in his black and white world...
...concerned," says Mary Lou Meurer, "my son died in vain. My son died for nothing." His widow Deborah, 23, does not go quite so far. "I'm just so mad," she says. "We're all together on that." His brother Jay, 22, has written a protest manifesto ("We the people who have signed this petition feel that it was wrong that President Reagan sent the Marines to Beirut!") in longhand on a yellow tablet. If Reagan makes a condolence phone call to them, Mary Lou says, "he'll be put on hold...
...most serious charge: that she has failed to turn the policies of her first term into a clear blueprint for her second. Increasingly, the criticism has come from her own party. The most serious challenge was on the economic front. Last June, Thatcher campaigned on a hastily drafted manifesto calling for, among other things, reductions in taxes and government spending. Last week John Biffen, a leader in the House of Commons, publicly criticized the policy. In a television interview, he cast doubt on the government's ability to cut taxes, and made it clear that he was utterly opposed...
...debate (NEIGHBORHOOD-POWER, NUCLEAR-ARMS), and climb "branches" of subsidiary messages (GIVE-PEACE-A-CHANCE, NUKE-EM-ALL). As subsequent callers add their own opinions, the trees can grow into dense thickets of give and take. In Santa Cruz, Calif., a conference called START-A-RELIGION began with a manifesto that declared, "Religion is too important to be left to the churches or to the profiteers," and invited tree people to "create one we can be comfortable with." Ten months later, the computer had become so clogged with ideas that the Sysop was forced to delete 95% of the messages...
...this time, saying they feared that its "focus on a broad range of issues is likely to limit its impact." Bayard Rustin, stage manager of the original event, was another prominent no-show in 1983. Some Jewish organizations, angered by language in an early version of a march manifesto implying disapproval of the level of U.S. arms shipments to Israel, also decided to withhold support. In the end, however, the offending passages were toned down, and one of the march prayers was led by Rabbi Alexander Schindler, head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...