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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interrogation. "It was so crowded that you had to sleep standing up, and when I got out for a while I could not sleep lying down," Toai says. Hieu adds, "They leave very bright lights on the celling all night long to prevent you from falling asleep, and there isn't enough air to breathe--under these conditions the prisoners wish to have any opportunity to do heavy work outside...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Tales From the 'Vietnamese Gulag' | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

...made his fortune in the mines of South Africa, is a more pernicious denial of free expression than the orthodoxy President Bok tries to scare us with. As of now, the seven men on the Harvard Corporation make decisions on moral issues for the Harvard community. Isn't it more likely that the current situation, not Bok's hypothetical case, inhibits "a junior faculty member hoping for tenure, a young administrator seeking a promotion, a full professor worrying about a raise in salary...from openly espousing a view contrary to the official doctrine of the university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Artful Dodger | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

...risky value of military power is clear proof that the U.S. must not see it as a substitute for sophisticated and imaginative attention to political, social and economic problems hi the area. Not that economic aid is a surefire remedy either. Besides, Levy observed: "I believe our country isn't rich enough to marshal a Marshall Plan for the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Searching for the Right Response | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Even Harris Rosenblatt, raised with Gold in Brooklyn and now a homogenized bureaucrat, gets in a lick. "I used to be Jewish, you know," says Rosenblatt. "I used to be a hunchback," says Gold. "Isn't it amazing," says Rosenblatt, "how we've both been able to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking About the Unspeakable | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Thomson has written letters to Marius, Dean Rosovsky, and Standing Committee members protesting the decision and outlining her dissatisfaction with Marius. It looks like the fight isn't over...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Watching the Fur Fly | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

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