Word: freedom
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Congress in 1975 gave Americans the right to find out what information is kept on them in Government files. However laudable the law's purpose, some of the Freedom of Information Act's most avid users have turned out to be criminals. Last month Convicted Felon Gary Bowdach told a Senate subcommittee that he had filed "scores" of FOI requests with the FBI for himself and fellow inmates at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta "to try to identify informants." Why? "To eradicate them," Bowdach replied...
...committee of diplomats from the five Western powers on the U.N. Security Council in July negotiated a tentative plan for U.N.-supervised independence elections between South Africa and the South West Africa People's Organization, the Namibian freedom-fighting group that has led the struggle for Namibian independence for the past 12 years...
...Novgorod; of a heart attack during an audience with Pope John Paul I; in Vatican City. Consecrated a bishop in 1960 and an archbishop a year later, Nikodim served as a president of the World Council of Churches. Though he refused to criticize Moscow's restrictions on religious freedom, he was respected by other denominational leaders for his ecumenism. Nikodim headed his church's delegation at the accession of the new Pope, who administered his last rites...
...drawing what he could not build. Piranesi was perhaps subconsciously ex pressing a spirit caged by infinite space. In an age when reason and the romance of individual freedom were replacing old certitudes, Piranesi's labyrinthine galleries, infinitely receding arches and end less stairs must have been as profoundly unsettling to his contemporaries as the edge of a flat earth was to the ancients or black holes in space are to modern man. -A.T. Baker
Woods is currently traveling and lecturing in this country but he will become more active at Harvard in the spring. "We made him a visiting Nieman so he could have freedom to travel and spread his ideas without being tied to the Nieman curriculum," Thomson said...