Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, Kuznetsov became convinced that his mail, reading matter and telephone were constantly monitored; there was one almost comic episode in which a voice on the other end of his line told him that he could not use his phone until the recording machine had been changed. After a mysterious fire in his study, he began to bury manuscripts. He suspected that every acquaintance was an informer. And he admits that he turned down his one chance to protest. When Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn asked him to sign the famous letter denouncing Soviet censorship that was presented at the 1967 Writers...
...were also left without explanations. Mrs. Rheault said she had sensed that something was wrong from her husband's most recent letters, but relatives of the others said that they had not been aware of any difficulties until news reports of the arrests appeared. By week's end, four of the accused had hired civilian lawyers. Two of the attorneys received security clearances, reinforcing the belief that the case involves some supersecret operation. The Army is now investigating the charges to see if there are grounds for a court-martial. Conviction on a charge of premeditated murder carries...
...apologies came too late. Skinner flew off to London on "indefinite sick leave," and Evans left for Australia. Though Skinner later said he might return to Zambia, a third justice also announced his resignation. Speculation in Zambia was that the remaining four might leave the bench by the end of the year. The High Court crisis badly unsettled Zambia's white residents, who count on the white judiciary as a safeguard against the excesses of black nationalism. The value of private homes in Lusaka has dropped by one-sixth, and many white residents have made plans to leave...
...control camera), then tosses her out into the street. Doesn't all the naked grappling and wrestling qualify as dirty? Not at all, says Anna earnestly. "It's not one bit in the category of lewd films because the wife goes back to her husband in the end. She is not just cheating her husband because her emotions are involved. She is basically a woman of our time. A very honest woman who has a moment of tragedy...
...week's end the infra-red spectrometer on board Mariner 7, the second of the two vehicles that flew past Mars, detected two gases-ammonia and methane-that could indicate the presence of primitive life. Both are produced on earth by biological decay. George C. Pimentel, a University of California chemist, said that he was unable to determine the amount of ammonia in the Martian atmosphere, but he estimated the concentration of methane as "no more than a few parts per million." In the earth's atmosphere, the amount is about 1.5 p.p.m.-and added rather jovially that...