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Eve Slaff, 85, widow of former Beverly Hills Mayor and American Civil Liberties Union leader George Slaff and a civil liberties activist in her own right.
Dec. 30, 1997
California
The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California resigned effective March 20.
Feb. 25, 1987
Ramona Ripston will be returning to her old job as executive director of the Southern California affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union after spending the last 18 months as vice president and West Coast director of People for the American Way, an organization opposing the religious right.
Aug. 13, 1987
Laurie Ostrow, a civic leader who chaired the ACLU Foundation of Southern California from 1982 to 1988, has died.
Nov. 4, 1991
World & Nation
Gary Kreep is out to save the world from the American Civil Liberties Union, Communists, reverse discrimination, Democrats, and just about anything else that can be associated with the label “liberal.”
Dec. 7, 1987
The ACLU Foundation of Southern California has received a grant to underwrite its 1993 Summer Legal Intern Program from Malibu resident Alan Gleitsman.
June 13, 1993
A civil liberties group has filed suit challenging Cal State Northridge’s policy requiring student journalists to submit controversial material for review by a faculty member before it is published in the student newspaper.
May 12, 1988
Music
Rocker Elvis Costello is set to perform at an award ceremony honoring social activists Danny Goldberg, chairman and chief executive of Mercury Records Group, and Margery Tabankin, head of Barbra Streisand’s Streisand Foundation and Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation.
Sept. 4, 1998
Michael Balter’s article “Bathhouses Foster Denial of AIDS Crisis” (Op-Ed Page, Feb. 23) fails to make the case for closing bathhouses.
March 18, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
Lucy Adelman, 88, artist, philanthropist and activist for women’s causes and civil rights.
Nov. 19, 1997