Harold Winkler (activist)
Harold or Harald Winkler may refer to: *Harold Winkler of End Conscription Campaign *Hal Winkler, Harold Winkler, ice hockey *Harald Winkler See also *Harry Winkler (other) Harry Winkler may refer to: * Harry Winkler (handballer) (born 1945), American Olympic handballer * Harry Winkler (writer) Harry Winkler was an American sitcom writer who wrote for such shows as ''The George Gobel Show'', ''The Addams Family'', ...

End Conscription Campaign
The End Conscription Campaign was an anti-apartheid organisation allied to the United Democratic Front and composed of conscientious objectors and their supporters in South Africa. It was formed in 1983 to oppose the conscription of all white South African men into military service in the South African Defence Force. Apartheid government's policy on military conscription The apartheid government had a policy of compulsory conscription for young white men who were expected to perform military service at regular intervals, starting with an extended training which began in the year immediately following the one in which they left school or as soon as they turned 16, whichever came last. Many were granted deferment, for example to attend University and complete an undergraduate degree first, but very few young men were exempted from conscription for any reason other than being medically unfit or for a race classification error. Valid reasons included conscientious objection ba ...
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Hal Winkler
Harold Lang Winkler (March 20, 1894 – May 29, 1956) was a Canadian ice hockey goaltender. He played in the Western Canada Hockey League and National Hockey League between 1921 and 1928. Biography Winkler started his professional hockey career with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Canada Hockey League in 1922. He would also play with the Calgary Tigers. In 1926, he moved to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. He would also play with the Boston Bruins who acquired him from the Rangers in a cash transaction on January 17, 1927. According to Winkler's obituary in the May 31, 1956 edition of the Montreal Gazette, he was given the unflattering nickname "Baldy" because he had lost his hair at an early age. Winkler wore a modified baseball cap in goal partly because rival fans often threw objects at his hairless pate. Winkler recorded 15 shutouts in 44 games for the Bruins in 1927–28. Despite the NHL's regular season almost doubling in length from what it was i ...
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Harald Winkler
Harald Winkler (born 17 December 1962) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won a gold medal in the four-man event with teammates Ingo Appelt, Gerhard Haidacher and Thomas Schroll at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. Winkler also won two medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a silver in 1993 and a bronze in 1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis .... ReferencesBobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964
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