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TIME's coverage of dissidents in the Soviet Union goes back nearly 60 years to a 1927 story that reported on Leon Trotsky. Though "excommunicated from the party," TIME wrote of the man who was later assassinated in Mexico on Joseph Stalin's orders, Trotsky "is the leader of the opposition and is uncompromisingly outspoken in his criticism." Since then, and particularly over the past two decades, TIME has reported at great length on the activities of other Soviet citizens who have publicly protested the Kremlin's brutal rule. This week we return again to the subject with a lengthy...
...hand grenades, in October 1985 seized the Mediterranean cruise liner with more than 400 passengers and crew aboard. The hijackers were persuaded to leave the ship voluntarily during negotiations involving the Egyptian government and Palestinian leaders. U.S. Navy pilots captured them after their surrender. One passenger, wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of Manhattan, was murdered in the attack...
SCIENCES EDITOR: Leon Jaroff...
Harvard claims a long tradition of defending dissenters. When Physics Professor Wendell Furry and Research Assistant Leon Kamin took the Fifth Amendment before Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating committee in 1953-54, McCarthy demanded that they be fired, but Harvard's new president, Nathan Pusey, refused. "There is now an especially urgent obligation upon our universities to preserve freedom of inquiry and freedom of teaching," he said. Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter urged Pusey to fire anyone who took the Fifth Amendment, but Pusey stood firm. A decade later, however, he sacked Timothy Leary, then a lecturer in psychology...
...other participants in the panel were Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Stanley Cavell, Professor of Fine Arts Timothy J. Clark, Senior Lecturer on English Monroe Engel, and Rosen Professor of Music Leon Kirchner...