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...wrote Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? and as a result was imprisoned for five years for defaming the Soviet state, gave a copy of Reflections to a Dutch correspondent. On July 10, a few days after returning to the Installation and exactly seven years after my clash with Khrushchev over nuclear testing, I turned on the BBC or VOA and heard my name. The announcer reported that on July 6 the Dutch newspaper Het Parool had published my article...
...understandable response would be to ignore the whole thing. But ignorance is not an option. The clash, however angry and ominous, is not just the usual dustup between raucous young stars and the professional squares who oppose them. It's not just about dirty words and bad attitude. The battle over pop raunch reflects a crucial fissure in American social and political culture that was born a long generation ago and came of age in the Reagan-Bush...
...scene, which was played out again last week, symbolizes a clash of cultures. At issue are 19th century treaties, recently upheld by the federal courts, that allow the Chippewa to spear spawning walleyed pike in the shallows of 178 northern Wisconsin lakes. Sport fishermen, who are required to use less efficient fishing rods and are limited to three to five fish a day, claim that the Chippewa are harming tourism by depleting the walleye population. "It's 1% of the population exercising their rights to the detriment of 99%," charges Dean Crist, leader of a protest group...
...long, analytical stories, preferring National Geographic's traditional franchise of anthropology, travelogues and scenic montage. Yet it was under his tenure as editor in the '70s that the magazine first tiptoed toward relevance by running stories on Harlem and South Africa and the Quebec separatist movement. More likely, the clash had to do with personalities -- or money. In recent years the society has branched out into book publishing, a TV program, a travel magazine and a research journal. The strain on cash flow triggered cost cutting and staff reductions, leaving Garrett's writers and explorers with less luxuriant expense accounts...
...Observers expect he will run the experiment in the strictly hierarchical fashion he has displayed at CERN. At the same time, physicists from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory and Japan are drawing up a collaboration that will be run along the more democratic lines of Fermilab. The clash of cultures between the CERN and Fermilab styles of management may make the sociology of the SSC nearly as interesting as the science...