Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amnesty International's basic tactics have proved effective for years. A local group "adopts" three known political prisoners: one in a Communist country, one in a non-Communist developed country, one in a "nonaligned" Third World nation (no group adopts prisoners in its own country). The adopting chapter boosts the morale of the prisoner with letters and material relief to his family, and bombards government officials at all levels with letters seeking his release. According to MacBride, "The avalanche of mail is the biggest annoyance to most governments. Soon the issue is being raised at Cabinet level, and everyone...
...American performance. Specifically, Goldberg will try to persuade Soviet-bloc countries to make family reunions across East-West borders easier by eliminating exorbitant visa fees and reprisals against would-be emigrants-like dismissal from their jobs. He will also propose multiple-entry visas for businessmen trading with Communist countries and elimination of red tape that currently restricts journalists' entry into the Eastern bloc...
...land prices. His friend and financial adviser, Len Wincobank, is serving a four-year prison term for fraud. Kitty Friedmann loses a foot and her husband in a random terrorist bombing. Keating's lover, Alison Murray, has a teen-age daughter jailed for reckless driving in a Balkan Communist state. "England was a safe, shabby, mangy old lion now," she mused. "Anyone could tweak her tail...
...hard to connect the author of this passage with the soft-spoken, philosophical man who came to Boston last week. Fast looks on the hardships of his life with a curiously detached perspective, pointing out very reasonably that they were important to his writing. In the Communist Party Fast once found an inspiring movement and struggle, a brave, historic fight for freedom. Even when he entered prison he went as a writer, a man whose purpose was to build up a store of experience. He told his wife at the time that it would be a shame for a writer...
Lilliam Hellman, the well-known playwright and author, who was blacklisted in the '50s for suspected ties with the Communist Party, has been selected by South House as this fall's Atherton Lecturer...