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...been rumored that his persistent protests might cause the state to declare him, too, mentally unbalanced, thus inflicting on him the very punishment he denounced. His latest protest may be a straightforward act of great courage, in disregard of consequences. But it may also be a last-ditch effort at self-preservation since, in view of the worldwide attention drawn by Solzhenitsyn's outcry, Russia's rulers might hesitate to move against him. To what extent such tactics might work is doubtful, as is suggested by the case of the brilliant young author Andrei Amal...
...recognized that transporting the nerve gas is far more dangerous than storing it. Citizen protest in Washington and Oregon was quick and vehement: a petition to stop the shipment collected 200,000 signatures; various groups staged "die-ins" to simulate the effects of the gas. As a last-ditch effort, McCall and Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington sued to block the shipment in U.S. district court. Late last month, President Nixon canceled the plan...
...time, I was wearing the sharpest pair of baby blue wool booties you'd ever want to see, but I was, nevertheless, hungry for my first pair of sneakers. You know, just as a girl has to go from b??bys?x to stockings, a young boy has to ditch his booties for those very first tennies...
...certain type of education. Wellesley College has unique problems and should be able to find unique solutions. If the problems are approached creatively and responsibly the Wellesley of the future will be considered a progressive and excitingly outward looking school, not one which embraced coeducation as a last-ditch effort to survive...
...conical hats. He and his squad helped round up the women and children. When one of his men protested that "I can't shoot these people," West told him to turn the group over to Captain Medina. On the way out of the village, West recalls seeing a ditch filled with dead and dying civilians. His platoon also passed a crying Vietnamese boy, wounded in both a leg and an arm. West heard a G.I. ask: "What about him?" Then he heard a shot and the boy fell. "The kid didn't do anything," says West. "He didn't have...