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...release and arrival in the West of Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky was just such an occasion. Days before the Soviets handed over Shcharansky, Bonn Bureau Chief William McWhirter set about covering the final days of delicate negotiations for Shcharansky's freedom. He dispatched Correspondent John Kohan, Russian fur hat and extra sweaters in hand, to Berlin to stake out the Glienicker Bridge. Says Kohan, who speaks both German and Russian: "The swap closed out a story of great individual courage and determination. Shcharansky took on the Soviet security apparatus...
...last week. Unresolved until the event actually took place was U.S. and West German determination that the release of Shcharansky be physically separated, by at least a short interval, from the spy exchange at the bridge. At a few minutes before 11 last Tuesday morning, the diminutive figure in fur hat and baggy clothing emerged from behind two vans parked at the middle of the bridge. "No Wall!" Shcharansky shouted to bystanders with a smile as he strode across the 4-in.-wide line at the center of the span that marks the barrier between East and West. Then...
...Crimson showdown is always rip-roaring, and although the Crimson took a lopsided 11-3 decision in Ithaca in December, the fur should fly again tonight...
...difficult to argue that student government at Harvard should be political. How do you argue that cats should have fur or dogs should bark? They simply do. What on earth is an apolitical, elective, legislative assembly? The Undergraduate Council has, and inevitably will have, a political role at Harvard. Arguments that it should not are just poor excuses for ignoring student concerns...
Underwood, who is built something along the lines of an unlit, unfiltered Camel, looked down at the little fur ball and somehow made himself appear bigger. "I don't want nothing looks like that buried near Old Troop," he said...