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...Does it enlarge our knowledge of history; does it give us new insight into the way our world works?" Bonner's book combines both deeply personal and broadly historical elements. Says Kriss: "It is a story of two people living in terrible isolation, but also waging a heroic fight against a vast and monolithic state system. The title has it right: Bonner and Sakharov are Alone Together...
...Sakharovs remain penned up, they by no means remain silent. This week Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., is publishing, and TIME is excerpting, the book that Bonner wrote during her six-month visit to the West (Alone Together; 272 pages; $17.95). In it she recounts the fight that she and her husband waged to get her to the U.S. for medical treatment. She also confirms that Andrei Sakharov's memoirs, repeatedly stolen and repeatedly reconstructed, a document certain to be of surpassing interest, have somehow survived. "(His) book will come," says Bonner. "It already exists." And it is in the West...
...Conference of Catholic Bishops hired Jesuit Michael Buckley as the executive director of its doctrine committee. In 1977 Buckley had signed a significant open letter to Rome complaining that the Vatican decree against women priests used "faulty" arguments and "could impose a grave injustice." However, the Vatican did not fight Buckley's appointment, reasoning that the letter did not exactly deny its teaching...
Bennett, a conservative educator, has a historyof making critical remarks of Harvard. In a speechearlier this summer, in which Bennett called onuniversities to fight drug use more seriously, hementioned an incident while he was a freshmanproctor at Harvard as indicative of lenienttendencies among College administrators towardsdrugs...
...Abraham Lincoln Brigade, actually a battalion, was organized by a group of Americans in the 1930s to fight on the side of Spanish partisans against the fascist Gen. Francisco Franco...