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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends and associates. By their testimony, he is intelligent, warm, charming, compassionate, humorous and unpretentious, as well as undisciplined, boorish, gloomy, supercilious, cruel and downright bent. About the only thing everybody can agree on is that he is a prankster. He delights in disguising his voice in his frequent phone calls to friends, assuming such identities as a job applicant, a woman, or a doctor reporting a comically grotesque diagnosis of some third party. He is also devastatingly adept at mimicry, something he does not only for laughs. "Actors have to observe," he says. "They have to know how much...
...substantial increase in influenza-like disease on the island of Oahu, particularly among teen-agers and young children. No area appears to have been harder hit than northern California. Since Dec. 20, health authorities in Santa Clara County have blamed 20 deaths, mainly among the elderly, on pneumonia, a frequent complication of flu. In the same period, the county has filed 19 certificates in which the flu itself was listed as the cause of death...
...snowcapped Andes of South America are a cruel and unforgiving barrier. When storms are brewing, plane crashes are frequent; invariably after an aircraft goes down, mountain people remark that "the Cordillera never gives anyone back." Last week, though, the Cordillera had been forced to give back 16 of the 45 people who had been aboard a Uruguayan air force plane that hit a mountain peak in mid-October. Incredibly, the survivors lasted for 73 days in deep snow and subfreezing temperature. They took extremely grim measures in order to do so-they ate the bodies of those who had died...
...elder statesman and a principal lieutenant of Mohandas Gandhi during their country's struggle for independence; in Madras, India. A Brahman lawyer who joined Gandhi in 1919, "Rajaji" served his mentor as publisher and administrative aide. His leadership in passive resistance against the British led to frequent jail terms. Though his prophetic support for a separate Moslem state-which became Pakistan-caused a break with Gandhi in 1942, he later rejoined his old ally and in 1948 became India's first native-born Governor-General. Long a conservative and an ardent antiCommunist, Rajaji was no follower...
...official ire is a ragged, typewritten newsletter called the Chronicle of Current Events. The organ of the loosely knit Democratic Movement in Russia, the Chronicle provides accurate and exhaustive news of the arrests and trials of dissidents that are not reported in the official press. In spite of frequent efforts by the KGB (secret police) to halt the Chronicle's widespread underground circulation, 27 issues have appeared regularly since publication began in 1968. The KGB recently stepped up its drive to stamp out the journal. Scores of suspects have been rounded up and interrogated in an effort to identify...