Word: support
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Proponents contend that direct mail is the most efficient way to organize and rally support for public causes. "How else do you communicate with people?" asks Peter Bahouth, executive director of Greenpeace USA. "For better or worse, it's the lifeblood of the community." Advocates argue that direct mail actually fosters democracy. "It is a very decentralizing force," says Roger Craver of Falls Church, Va., who raises money through the mails for liberal causes. "In many ways, it has revolutionized American politics...
...sentimental reveries and tie-dyed rhetoric employed by such veteran protesters as Ramsey Clark and Daniel Ellsberg, the peace movement of 1990 only faintly resembles that of the Vietnam era. More than anything, its members seem to want to support the President's policy of standing up to Saddam Hussein and defending Saudi Arabia. But Bush's sudden switch two weeks ago from a defensive to an offensive strategy has raised all sorts of questions. Have sanctions been given enough time to work? Is the U.S. shouldering too much of the burden? Should the President proceed without approval from Congress...
...front line of that debate are those whose sons and daughters are on the front line in the gulf. The Military Families Support Network, for example, grew out of an open letter to President Bush from Alex Molnar, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, whose son Christopher is a Marine corporal in Saudi Arabia. "If, as I expect, you eventually order American soldiers to attack Iraq," he wrote, "then it is God who will have to forgive you. I will not." After the New York Times published his letter, Molnar received thousands of calls from people...
...experience with grass-roots protest -- but they are learning quickly. What is most wrenching for them is the fear that their dissent might somehow suggest a betrayal of their children. "It scares me to think my son might be very angry if he thought I was not totally in support, in admiration and love for all the men and women in the service over there," says Leona Murray, who attends weekly vigils in Hyannis, Mass., while her 19-year-old son, infantryman Jay Coull, patrols in Saudi Arabia. "I certainly am not protesting their actions. I'm protesting a government...
Whatever the provenance of the recordings, their squelching by Judge Hoeveler opened a second front in the court battle. A number of publishers, including the Time Inc. Magazine Co., TIME's parent organization, and the New York Times Co., filed an amicus brief in support of CNN's petition to be freed from the restraining order. A similar brief was filed by several major television networks. Says Jane Kirtley, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "News organizations are in the business of exposing governmental misconduct, and that's what CNN has done...