Word: done
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needs of the earth. You may even come away with something like my own sense that what is regrettable in Jimmy's life now is your and my presence in his native place; the fact that he cannot return here in peace and roam as I've done in absolute stillness past his boyhood house, the neighboring hovels, the empty woods, the acres of graves just up the road at the site of the prison at Andersonville, where almost 13,000 men died in 14 months to feed brands of ignorance and malice still ravenous now as then...
...desperation, the Mokhtaris moved to Tehran 30 years ago. They have done better than most. Until four years ago, twelve members of the family lived in a one-room shack at the bottom of an abandoned ravine, surrounded by scrap, refuse and old tires. They struggled and sacrificed their way from the bottom of the ravine to the top of the hill. They built a two-story house with a Mediterranean-style courtyard, with electricity to power a TV set, a hi-fi and an air conditioner. Mrs. Mokhtari is proud of the honest work of her sons, who helped...
...Iran more than $250 million annually for some 10 billion cubic meters of gas, which they distribute through branch lines to the whole of the Transcaucasus. Like their American counterparts, Soviet officials seemed at first to assume that the disruption of deliveries would be only brief, and little was done to arrange for alternative sources of supply if the troubles continued into winter. Belatedly they are now rushing to get apartments and factories to convert to oil heat-there is also an effort under way to pump Soviet oil down from the main pipeline network to the north. That, however...
...This is probably the first time that most of the work for one of these briefs was done by law students. It's first-rate piece of work," Dershowitz, the American attorney for Anatole Scharansky and other Soviet dissidents, said yesterday...
Reischauer, however, said he believes Stanley is too good a professor to lose. "He's simply terrific--a great teacher--a good, solid, sound scholar. I think he's the kind of man Harvard can't afford to lose, and something should be done to keep him here," he added...