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...Paul Goma, a Rumanian novelist and dissident, discussed the human rights transgressions of the regime of President Nicolae Ceausescu and United States support of Ceausescu's government in a speech yesterday at the Center for International Affairs...
...Goma, who was imprisoned for nine months in 1977 for his outspoken opposition to the Rumanian government, denounced "the myth that Rumania conducts an independent foreign policy. "Rumanian foreign policy is contined by a framework that is set down by the Soviet Union and is never exceeded," Goma said...
What Ionesco anticipated then was an alternative to the imperatives of the bourgeois intellectuals. That alternative finally found a chance in 1973, when Russian dissidents such as Solzhenitsyn, Maximov, Siniavsky, Goma, Amarik and Bukovsky began trickling into France...
Everyone began scrambling to see who had lowered the hemline first. American Designer Victor Joris last year or Jacques Tiffeau last spring, claimed some. Alberto Fabiani in Rome the week before, recalled others. Even Patou's designer, Michel Goma, who brought waistlines up nearly under the arms, let the length vary from two inches above the knee to midcalf. The miniskirt? "Dégoütant," snapped Coco Chanel. "Now I know why men don't like women any more." And so Chanel stayed Chanel, with neatly fitted suits just covering the kneecap. Pierre Cardin dropped an inch...
...Booster award went to San Diego's Sea World Aquarium for training its dolphins to present a diverting, three-act "play" with an anti-litter message. More to the point, GOMA honored Colorado's Adolph Coors Co. for its remarkable success in reducing the number of beer cans by the side of the highway. Coors, whose beer is the best-selling in nine of the eleven Western states, has been paying 10 for every empty can and bottle returned-at a loss to the company of 10 each. With recovery rates as high as 85% in some states...