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...preacher and civil rights leader in the '60s and Georgia Congressman in the '70s, Andy Young is used to speaking bluntly and forcefully. Although it might seem to be a contradiction, he is also a skillful, persuasive corridor negotiator-one reason why Carter chose him for the U.N. post...
According to a pamphlet the Vassar Hillel and Afro-American societies released last week, the minority student was "dragged...to the corridor where the K.K.K. garment was hung...
...standards, the seventh-floor Moscow apartment would be considered painfully modest. A narrow entrance corridor leads to a tiny bathroom, a toilet, a minuscule kitchen; two other small, book-cluttered rooms serve variously as bedrooms, living space and study areas. Yet if there is an epicenter to the Soviet Union's fragmented human rights movement, it is this dingy apartment. For it is the home of Physicist Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov, 55, guiding spirit of the harassed, hunted dissidents of the U.S.S.R...
...major attraction of the quad is its freshmen. The reason may not be obvious to those who have not resided there, but there can be no question about it: freshmen vitalize the place. They are the source of an infinite amount of energy which transforms the atmosphere in a corridor living environment. Without them, I myself would have chosen the river as a place to become a tutor...
...there." The Cubans and M.P.L.A. forces are reported to be using flame throwers and bulldozers to raze the villages in a 1.6-mile-wide cordon sanitaire being carved out along the 800-mile border between Angola and Namibia. Nowadays the Angolan refugees who manage to get across this "Castro Corridor," as the South Africans call it, are all women and small children; they say that in the border region all males over ten, considered potential military age in Angola, are being summarily shot, lest they become UNITA recruits. The atrocities may be strengthening support for UNITA. Says one refugee cattle...