Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...especially convincing. Footage purporting to show that the Sakharovs are healthy, indeed prospering, had apparently been taken months ago. The tape had been spliced in many places, and relatives who are now in the West recognized at least one segment as being more than a year old. In one brief sequence, however, a strikingly thin and exhausted-looking Sakharov is seen eating some food at a table on which a July 16 copy of Newsweek has been conspicuously placed. The videotape proved one thing: Sakharov had interrupted, though perhaps not ended, his hunger strike as early as six weeks...
...Rolls-Royce, the enginemaker. The largest privatization move will come in the fall when 51% of British Telecom, the telecommunications monopoly, goes on the block in an anticipated $4 billion selloff. Union members have called the breakup of ownership "an act of economic vandalism," and some engineers staged a brief protest strike...
Thirty-eight years later Herbst published a brief reminiscence of the trip that should have prodded Langer, usually an indefatigable researcher, into inquiring about conditions in the U.S.S.R. at the time of the visit. Herbst wrote that she had failed to ask about the collectivization that had uprooted "flocks of human beings, to starve or die." Instead, not a word about the famine appears in Langer's book...
President Reagan, in a speech before the National Forum on Excellence in Education late last year, called for a return of discipline to make American public schools "temples of learning, not drug dens." The Justice Department heeded that call last week. In a friend-of-the-court brief, Justice urged the Supreme Court to establish that students do not have full protection of the Fourth Amendment against warrantless searches and that school authorities may search students for drugs or any other evidence of school violations on grounds of "reasonable suspicion...
...constructed on the life of a minstrel (Paul Nicholas) in the court of King Richard I. With the twist of a political metaphor, the Lionheart turns into today's "Iron Lady" of 10 Downing Street. And in case there is any mistaking the satire, King Richard sings a brief ditty on the virtues of self-reliance whose 16 lines begin with the letters M-A-R-G-A-R-E-T THATCHER. But if the show has an angry bark, it is also frisky as a puppy. Nicholas and his co-stars (all veterans of the Cats cast) strut...