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...Walk for Hunger is indicative of this penchant for social service. She cites a longstanding interest in human rights as motivation for her participation in both of these organizations. A faithful presence at Amnesty's bi-monthly letter-writing sessions, Ueno remarks that occasionally she and fellow Dunster resident Astrid Guttmann '87 were the only ones holding down the fort...
...Astrid Guttmann '87, of Dunster House, received a phone call at her home in Montreal from the selection committee only hours after it interviewed...
Meanwhile, West German officials announced that a husband-and-wife team of suspected spies had fled to East Germany. The pair were identified as Herbert Willner, 59, a defense expert influential within the Free Democratic Party, and his wife Herta-Astrid, 46, a secretary in the office of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Their defection came four weeks after Hans Joachim Tiedge, one of Bonn's top counterespionage officials, had fled to East Germany, along with three other suspected Communist agents. The Willner case prompted renewed demands for the resignation of Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann, who oversees Bonn's domestic...
...postcards demand the immediate release of three political prisoners in the Phillipines, South Africa, and the Soviet Union, including journalist Mila D. Aguilar, the aunt's of Eric A. San Juan '88, said HRAI member Astrid Guttman '87. San Juan has been working with his family to secure his aunt's release, according to a report in The Crimson last month...
SWEDEN is not a politically volatile nation in 1976, the ruling Social Democrats had held power for 44 years. But when taxes climbed up over 80 percent on a $30.000 income, even the reticent Swedes began to complain Author Astrid Lindgren wrote a particularly harsh attack when she was assessed for 102 percent of her royalties. The disillusionment with high taxes and government interference at all levels contributed to the defeat of the S-D prime minister Olof Palme in the 1976 elections, just as it helped Ronald Reagan oust then president Jimmy Carter...