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...persecution of Shcharansky is part of a pattern of increasingly severe treatment of dissidents, Jews and other ethnic minorities that has coincided with the deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations. Soviet leaders have increased the arrests of dissidents and cut back drastically on the number of Jews allowed to emigrate. By the end of 1981 emigration had dropped to an average of 380 people a month, an 82% decline over the previous two years. One of those allowed to emigrate earlier was Avital Shcharansky, 31, who met Secretary of State Alexander Haig during his trip to Israel two weeks...
...with his. Certainly Pollock scorned decor. He was not interested in painted hedonism; and yet his practice of painting "all over"-by covering an entire field with incidents that were not arranged in hierarchies of size or emphasis-became, in a stupefied way, the basis of the ornamental "pattern and decoration" mode that came out of SoHo in the late...
...holding pattern, just waiting to hear from Harvard," said Janice Graeff, a member of the tenant union leadership...
...banning are harsh, they are not as unpleasant in most cases as the more common punishment of indefinite detention without trial. In 1960 the government began to practice detention in addition to banning, which was ten years old. The two repressive measures have become part of the grim pattern of national life. Over the years, banning and detention have been used to silence more than 1,500 critics of the regime, including 350 people seized during the Soweto riots in 1976 and scores of journalists, clergymen and antiapartheid leaders following the death in custody of Stephen Biko...
...sophomore year, Rick Slager was the favored quarterback of Coach Dan Devine, though the leading receiver at the time, Ken MacAfee, still wonders why. According to MacAfee, "The pattern began to be that Rick Slager would start the game and then Montana would have to come in and save it." Joe sat out the entire season in 1976 with a separated shoulder, extending his eligibility one year and increasing his frustration...