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Georgi Vladimov, 51, a Soviet writer, hunches over a cup of tea in his small, fifth-floor apartment on the out skirts of Moscow. Outside, the sun has broken through the midwinter gloom, and in the courtyard below a father plays with his child among the birch trees. It is a scene of cheery placidity, but life is not placid for Vladimov. Like thousands of fellow citizens, he has learned firsthand about the implacable methods the KGB uses to intimidate those who deviate from prescribed norms of thought or behavior...
January 27, 5:21 a.m.--A female undergraduate was walking down Bow St., when two more approached her. The men grabbed her and forced her into the courtyard of St. Paul's, where they pushed her around for a few minutes. The two men then fled down Athens 21, with the victim's purse...
...habituees, they explored. At first the wide-open entrance doors and quietly blinking monitors got on their nerves, but at 2:30 they happened on a luxurious lounge area equipped with two cushioned chairs, a complete 15-volume Oxford English Dictionary, a picture window overlooking Pusey's under ground courtyard, and a Centrex phone. They used the Centrex for duty calls to several home bases and then relaxed It was time for some reading...
...impish sense of humor. To relieve the tension and tedium on location with Octopussy, Moore strolled through the hotel courtyard, into the swimming pool without breaking stride, and up and out again into the arms of his wife Luisa. He is engagingly self-deprecating about his career: "If I kept all my bad notices, I'd need two houses." But how does he bring his acting gifts to bear on the subtle character changes demanded of James Bond? "Sometimes I wear a white dinner jacket, sometimes a black...
...robberies, which took place in the St. Paul's Church courtyard and Pennypacker Hall, occurred about 10 minutes apart, and the assailants appeared to be the same people, according to descriptions given by the students...