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...last, The Crimson lends a hand to a Harvard alumna, Lu Shiu-lien, and her fellow opposition leaders pending a "sedition" trial before the military tribunal in Taiwan. Although the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) regime promises the American government, its arms supplier, that the trial will be fair, Burton Jablin's admirable, in-depth report makes it crystal clear that a fair trial before the military tribunal is a contradiction in terms. The trial has been postponed several times, because the KMT regime is waiting to size up this country's responses. As a student from Taiwan, I express my gratitude...
...surprise, Brezhnev devoted much of their meeting to a lengthy analysis of the threat to detente that has followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. State Department officials contend that there was "nothing new" in Brezhnev's state ments. In Paris, however, Hammer told TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton that the a the Soviets are now ready to negotiate with the U.S. on a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan...
Many Nobel winners are taking a dim view of Graham's project. Stanford's Burton Richter (Physics, 1976) reports that his students are beginning to ask whether he supplements his salary with stud fees. "It's somewhat weird," he says. "What they are trying to do is create an intellectual superman, and selecting winning Nobel Prize scientists is not the way to do it." Charles H. Townes (Physics, 1964) of the University of California at Berkeley dismissed the project as "snobbish," and the Salk Institute's Dr. Renato Dulbecco (Medicine, 1975) disqualified himself. Said...
...goal of the new project is to find out how many forces there are in nature," Burton Richter, a Nobel laureate and the Stanford professor who designed the project, said recently...
Sellers' chameleon-like transitions and ineffable gestures made him the most difficult star Burton has encountered in eleven years of interviewing celebrities, a list that includes Richard Burton, Diana Ross and John Travolta. Concludes Burton: "In terms of challenge, he ranks with three of my favorite TIME cover subjects: Anthropologist-Guru Carlos Castaneda, who wouldn't even be photographed; Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who despises any form of media event; and Opera Maestro Sarah Caldwell, who, like Peter Sellers, is a master of elusive cooperation...