Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart ached when I read of the fate of Anatoli Shcharansky and other Soviet dissidents [July 24]. Their only crime is the love of freedom...
...bookies rate the Conservatives as 6-to-4 favorites, most opinion polls show the two parties running virtually neck-and-neck; this is a triumph of sorts for Labor, which two years ago was trailing by 22 points. A key question for the government, however, is the future electoral fate of the faltering Liberal Party, whose 13 M.P.'s provided the margin of victory for Labor on numerous key votes in the 635-seat Commons. Last week the Liberals were dealt a staggering blow outside Parliament (see following story), which made their balloting prospects look even bleaker...
...August breather in Germany's Black Forest. "My head is empty at the moment," she says. "I just want to walk, walk, walk." And then of course there is a casino in Baden-Baden and, for her, gambling still casts a spell. Confesses Sagan: "Good God! Once fate leads you to these habits, there's no stopping...
...deteriorate into what one analyst called "China's worst foreign policy disaster since the Cultural Revolution cut the country off from the rest of the world." Ostensibly, the quarrel focuses on two issues: China's support for Viet Nam's inimical neighbor, Cambodia, and the fate of 1.2 million ethnic Chinese in Viet Nam. Peking accuses Hanoi of subjecting them to "persecution and ostracism." While Hanoi denies the charge, 159,000 refugees have crossed the border into southern China, fleeing harsh new economic measures in Viet Nam. Peking has withdrawn its estimated $300-million-a-year...
...provoked Young's bosses-as well as the U.S. Congress and many Western leaders-appeared in the French socialist daily Le Matin, just as Jimmy Carter was protesting the trials of Soviet Dissidents Shcharansky and Ginzburg. Asked about the trials, Young said it was difficult to predict the fate of the dissidents, and then added that in U.S. prisons there are "hundreds, maybe thousands of people I would categorize as political prisoners." He said: "Ten years ago, I myself was tried in Atlanta for having organized a [civil rights] protest movement. And three years later, I was a Georgia...