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...film in which each played himself; from his position as chief after 34 years on the force because, he said, of his frustration with the courts and smalltown politics; in Stockbridge. Obie and Guthrie, a resident of nearby Washington, Mass., became friends after the clash over trash...
...close to 100. Tension has been steadily increasing, even in areas not covered by the emergency regulations. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate who has emerged as the leading voice of moderate black protest, conducted a mass funeral in Daveyton township and then personally averted an open clash between security forces and hundreds of black mourners...
Such belittling descriptions would not seem appropriate for a man who had triggered an untimely presummit squabble between the superpowers and a clash of wills between the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. Government. Soviet Merchant Seaman Miroslav Medvid, 25, had inadvertently created this political uproar on Oct. 24 by leaping 40 feet from the Soviet freighter Marshal Konev into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. When the ship, laden with corn, finally pulled away from its dock last Saturday afternoon with Medvid aboard, a sad personal and political saga that had lasted for more than two weeks apparently...
...says Second-Year Student Sheila Maith. "I don't think anybody has a commitment to being on one side or the other as much as the faculty does." As for the bulk of the faculty, the "mushy centrist types," as one professor describes himself, they celebrate the clash of new ideas, though sometimes wearily these days. Notes Professor Laurence Tribe: "I especially disagree with the rigidity, orthodoxy and intolerance that both extremes display toward those who are not part of their camp." It may be remembered, however, that the charge of arrogant complacency was once leveled at the entire Harvard...
Cowpuncher Ross Knox stays behind, watching the coming dawn. Daylight reveals a clash of cultures, old and new. Less than 50 ft. from the fire stands a pickup truck that hauls the cook wagon from camp to camp. In the distance, 18-wheelers fly down Interstate 40. As his friends ride off to round up cattle, Knox ambles back to the fire for another cup of coffee...