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...Muslim leaders, the muftis, have apparently worked out a kind of modus vivendi with the government; in exchange for being allowed to practice their religion they often support the government on major policy questions. Any kind of Islamic resistance to the Soviet system would probably emerge from a large network of Sufi brotherhoods, ultraconservative secret societies that are banned by Soviet law. Sufi adherents worship in clandestine mosques and practice a kind of "parallel Islam" to the officially sanctioned...
...reason why no one has died except Gilmore since 1967 is that L.D.F. lawyers have been racing around the country filing last-minute appeals. But without broad constitutional arguments, lawyers will have to fight each case on the facts of the crime and technicalities of conviction. A network of local defense lawyers, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is trying to save Evans, has sprung up to help stave off executions, but L.D.F. Lawyer Joel Berger predicts "within a year there will not be enough doctors in the emergency room...
...autobiography, As It Happened, Paley concedes the numbing mediocrity of prime-time television, but confesses that CBS can't do much about it. Instead he proposes that the presidents of the three networks meet and agree to give two hours a week in prime time-six hours in all-to programs that would appeal to "educated, sophisticated tastes more than to the mass audience." But for CBS to do so alone would be "forfeiting the whole night through the domino effect" on the ratings that are basic to "the financial well-being of each network...
...fund has boosted its total over the last five years through an extensive network of class agents in different areas of the country, and this year a big telephone soliciting marathon starting April 23 will help in their annual record-breaking gymnastics...
After this year's drive is finished, the College Fund will merge temporarily with the capital campaign, pending Corporation approval this spring. University financial officers expect the fund's network of alumni volunteers to be an effective tool in the capital drive...