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...paraded before 300 foreign and Russian newsmen for an extraordinarily confessional press conference at Moscow's Journalists' Club. Looking remarkably fit despite 15 months of pretrail detention and interrogation, the leonine-headed dissident recited a prepared statement in a monotone while smoking Bulgarian cigarettes and sipping Caucasian mineral water. Along with his convicted codefendant, Economist Viktor Krasin, Yakir repeated the recantations that had earned them both relatively mild sentences (three years in prison and three years of exile) at their trial on charges of subversion (TIME, Sept...
Died. Shirali Mislimov, 168, a Caucasian herdsman regarded in the Soviet Union as the oldest man alive; in Barzavu, U.S.S.R. Mislimov, who neither smoked nor drank, and existed largely on a diet of chicken broth, cheese and curded milk, is survived by his 107-year-old third wife and 219 other family members, including a grandchild aged...
...head of the whole nasty slave racket is a Caucasian pervert named Amafi (Frank Finlay), whose line of chatter runs to things like "Luck can run out even for you, my black brother." It is difficult to imagine how he rose to such a position of prominence, but his henchmen seem impressed. They chase Shaft all over Ethiopia, from desert to village and even across the water to Paris. But he eventually dispatches them all, even taking time out to discuss a clitoridectomy with Aleme...
...next morning the interrogator returned with a Caucasian. He was about 35 and six feet tall, black-haired, brown-eyed, and spoke idiomatic English. He was a specialist in torture. The prisoners called him Fidel because he seemed to be Latin, but no one really had any idea where he came from. He obviously was a high official of some Communist country, because he lorded it over the Vietnamese...
...rules of the Loyal Order of Moose (national membership: 900,000) restrict membership or guest privileges to "male persons of the Caucasian or White race above the age of 21 years, and not married to someone of other than the Caucasian or White race, who are of good moral character, physically and mentally normal, who shall profess a belief in a Supreme Being." Refused service as a guest in both the bar and the dining room of Lodge 107 in Harrisburg, Pa., K. Leroy Irvis, a black Pennsylvania legislator, brought a test suit under the 14th Amendment's equal...