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Increasingly angered by the dissident activities of Andrei Sakharov over the past two decades, Soviet authorities last week moved to exact another bit of vengeance. A court reportedly sentenced Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, 61, to five years of internal exile for anti-Soviet slander. For Sakharov, 63, the blow was worsened by the prospect that Bonner may not survive the hardships of banishment. She has already suffered several heart attacks. When she was visited by a close family friend early this year, her lips and fingernails had turned blue and she was taking several dozen nitroglycerin tablets...
...exact nature of the organization remains murky; indeed, many experts doubt that it really exists as a cohesive entity. "It's very mysterious," said a Western diplomat in the gulf last week. "It's not really one group at all, but an umbrella name for the work done by any number of smaller groups." Taken together, the units appear to work with the aid and support of Iran, but not as a single body...
...second best long jump in Olympic history, 28 ft. ¼ in., thrilled Moscow four years ago when East German Lutz Dombrowski accomplished it. By the exact measurement, although a slightly different standard, Los Angeles was a little disappointed with Carl Lewis. He reached that distance on his first jump, fouled on the second and folded the rest. If it was more than a foot less than he could have done, it was almost a foot more than he had to do. Stopping was good track and bad theater: some of the $60 customers, not including Bob Beamon, booed. "My friend...
Cabot said that these moves enabled the University--which currently sports an endowment of about $2.5 billion, the largest in academic--to make some extra money, though he has not yet tabulated the exact figures...
...nation's economy, and well they may. The microelectronics and computer revolutions promise an easier, more efficient, and more comfortable life for a majority of citizens in Massachusetts and elsewhere. But unless dramatic action is taken, for a small minority of workers, these revolutions are destined to exact a terrible price--a price that may often be irreversible...