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...desire to provoke a rupture with Moscow over the dissident issue. Not now at least. The Italians defend free expression but draw the line at anti-Soviet hostility. The party still has a large constituency of working-class oldtimers who not only look to Moscow as their ideological mecca but who have grown restive about Berlinguer's tacit support for Premier Giulio Andreotti's Christian Democratic minority government. When Carrillo recently declared that repression of dissidents showed that the "Soviet Union is not really a popular democracy but a dictatorship of a small layer of the country over...
Heroin Rain. Amsterdam has long been a mecca for addicts and dealers because of The Netherlands' wrist-tapping drug laws. But the mounting flow of "horse" through the city has become a narc's nightmare. Says G.J. Toorenaar, chief of Amsterdam's criminal investigation division: "It's raining heroin in The Netherlands." Worse, Europe's swelling addict population is now getting its dope from overseas Chinese gangs that police cannot understand or penetrate...
Discharged from the Navy in 1945, Rauschenberg decided to study art. He signed up as a student at the Kansas City Art Institute under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Every spare dime was set aside for a trip to Europe, the statutory voyage to Mecca, which he made in 1948. "I was certain that one had to study in Paris if one was an artist. I think I was at least 15 years late." He did study, briefly, at the Academic Julian; but since he spoke not a word of French, the instruction had little effect. He felt unfocused, self...
Many are already associated with Harvard, but a large number are younger people attracted to the student mecca of Boston, says Grossman. "They're in awe to think they have available to them an entree to the Harvard community" and to a degree, he says. "Many are scared because they were academic dropouts elsewhere," he says, and the slower pace gives them a chance to build up confidence...
...below me now, a stubby, grey-haired Turkish lady is crouching on her hands and knees, faced towards Mecca...