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...arena rank with hypocrisy, where May Day quotas are filled by automobile workers banging in screws with hammers; where the old starve and the young drink too much; where a black market in gasoline, used cars and objets d'art overmatches its Western counterpart; where suicide is disguised-who would take his own life in paradise? Yet it is also a place where dissidence is the badge of the patriot, and protesters underline Maxim Gorky's observation: "The Russian people ... learned to make sorrow a diversion ... made a carnival of grief; a fire is entertainment...
...Soviet counterpart is Leonid Zamyatin, chief of the Central Committee's International Information Department. He is a former director of TASS who operates under the guidance of the party's longtime chief ideologist, Mikhail Suslov. TASS serves as the backbone of Soviet propaganda. The bluntness of TASS's bias often works against it. For example, the Soviets in 1963 provided, free of charge, equipment for receiving TASS bulletins to the fledgling Kenyan news agency. The Kenyans, however, soon started using the equipment to receive Britain's Reuters wire service as well. A former Kenyan journalist says...
...locomotive engineer, Evans won high marks for his 14-year stewardship of the Sunday paper,* which he enlivened with eye-catching layouts and hard-hitting investigative stories (the thalidomide scandal in 1972 and 1977, a series on brutal prison conditions in Ulster in 1972). Unlike its daily counterpart, the Sunday Times (circ. 1.4 million) was usually in the black...
Senior captain Clark Bain played some of his best squash ever in the last dual match of his Harvard career, as he silenced the overtures of his Green counterpart...
...most recent catches from that pool showed their stuff in a battle of freshmen at the number six position. Harvard's Jim Lubowitz preserved his unblemished record, posting a four-game victory over his Dartmouth counterpart...