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...measures were a gauge of the Kremlin's dismay over the extent of Western press coverage of Gulag since its publication in Paris last December. In an effort to blunt the effect abroad of the book's disclosures of Communist repression, Soviet news stories sent round the world portrayed the author as an opponent of detente, allied with "hawks, Maoists and the followers of Hitler." At home, newspapers, periodicals, radio and TV continued to assault Solzhenitsyn with such epithets as "traitor," "blasphemer," "renegade," "fascist," "counterrevolutionary" and "enemy of the people." Party activists and policemen were out scouring factories...
...North Station. The electrified crowd occupied the time with chants of "We're number One," while several zealots took the campaign right down to the tracks. One of the less-than-sober fans climbed out after his fall by calmly stepping on the third rail, to the shock and dismay of gasping onlookers. He was not hurt...
...wake of the court-appointed panel's devastating findings, the nation once again experienced the dismay of knowing that FBI agents were back in the White House, quizzing Nixon's closest associates in a search for those who had committed a criminal act. This time the inquiry had the official sanction of Sirica, who ordered that all evidence be turned over to a federal grand jury for possible indictment. Unlike an earlier foray into the White House?shortly after the wiretap-burglary of Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate in June of 1972?the FBI agents this time...
That seemed to signal a new approach by White House attorneys: a turning away from past expressions of dismay at new revelations. St. Clair's pose was the more traditional defense lawyer's approach, seemingly
With the addition of "slapdash" and "ill-timed," that perfectly describes a new musical called More Than You De serve. Sponsored by Joseph Papp at his lower Manhattan dramatic -arts com plex, the Public Theater, it reflects his le gitimate dismay at the social and polit ical gangrene spread by the Viet Nam War. Unfortunately, it is difficult to transpose the My Lai massacre into a sick South Pacific. Nonetheless, if the hard-rock band does not split a play goer's skull, some of the farcically outrageous and libidinous goings-on may tickle his ribs...