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Saad, leader of Sidon's Sunni Moslem majority and an outspoken critic of Israeli presence in Southern Lebanon, remains in guarded condition in the intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. Saad is conscious and "has made good progress over the last two or three days," said a hospital spokesman...
...Outspoken Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has clashed publicly with Bok on numerous occasions, most recently last spring when he tried to persuade Bok to award an honorary degree in absentia to Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, an action which would have run counter to long-standing University policy that all its honorary degree recipients must attend Commencement exercises in Cambridge...
...four men who were brought to trial in handcuffs last week were, like the policemen outside, employees of the Ministry of the Interior. The four, all secret policemen, are charged in the plot to abduct and murder Father Jerzy Popieluszko, 37, a Roman Catholic priest who was an outspoken supporter of the banned Solidarity trade union. His bound and beaten body was discovered last October in a reservoir 85 miles north of Warsaw...
Cooperman, like many college professors and students at the time, was an outspoken opponent of the Viet Nam War. But his interest in the country, which bordered on obsession, outlived America's controversial involvement. In 1977, two years after the fall of Saigon, Cooperman made the first of about a dozen trips to Viet Nam. Upon his return, he founded the nonprofit Committee for Scientific Cooperation with Vietnam, through which he publicly lobbied for normal diplomatic and trade relations with the new pro-Soviet regime...
...marchers. From windows above the melee, residents cursed and taunted the police. "Gestapo go home!" two elderly women shouted from the safety of their flat. Among the dozen people detained by the police was Andrzej Gwiazda, once Solidarity's vice chairman and one of the most outspoken of Poland's dissidents; he was later sentenced to three months in prison. Walesa retreated to St. Brigid's, coolly explaining that "we marched as long as it seemed logical to march...