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...absentia, Andropov guides two key Kremlin meetings...
...this year's forum was a success--not merely because officials managed to salvage a link to Walesa, not even because of the historical firsts--having two speeches, and having a speech read in absentia. Rather these two addresses embodied what a Harvard Commencement speech should be--a fresh, well-crafted intellectual argument. Walesa's absence muffled the celebrity parade mentality that has surrounded the event in recent years, while Fuentes' eloquence helped play up the importance of the ideas themselves...
Aside from the unusual aspect of hearing a speech in absentia, the ceremonies today should proceed traditionally...
Mendelsohn explained that Jewish organizations are developing several projects which will focus on the plight of the refusniks. In one of the programs being considered, college campuses will "adopt" a college-age refusnik, admitting him or her to the college "in absentia" and establishing contact by writing letters and cards...
...more than 4,000 people and the deportation of 7,000 French Jews to concentration camps. His hands were also stained with the blood of Jean Moulin, France's most revered Resistance leader, who is believed to have died under torture in 1943. Twice Barbie was tried in absentia for his crimes and sentenced to death by French tribunals. But for more than three decades the Nazi managed to escape punishment and, indeed, prospered in Bolivia under the alias Klaus Altmann...