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...converged to make possible Shcharansky's release. An expert in Soviet- American relations and former TIME diplomatic correspondent, Talbott had covered the story of Shcharansky's arrest and imprisonment in the 1970s and had recently talked with Shcharansky's crusading wife Avital in Geneva about her husband's plight. Moscow Reporter Nancy Traver was among those visiting with Ida Milgrom, Shcharansky's 77-year-old mother, and his brother Leonid, in a friend's apartment. Says Traver: "She was radiant, smiling and laughing, even though he had been whisked through the city and she had not had a chance...
...Omaha last week, parents, students and community leaders struggled to come to their own understanding of the sad epidemic. Barbara Wheeler, a store manager who works with the city's "personal crisis" hot line, thought that the Midwest's economic plight places a great burden on status-conscious teens. "Peer pressure about images is worse than ever," she said. Bryan students talked about heavy pressure for good grades and social success. Said Chris Longacre, 17: "You feel like if you make one mistake, your future is gone." Bryan's principal, John McQuinn, pointed to prosuicide rock lyrics, complaining that...
Marcos' call for elections caught Washington flat-footed. The strongman, who suffers from a form of systemic lupus erythematosus, a disease that often affects the kidneys, had grown increasingly withdrawn from the country's plight; he had craftily evaded previous U.S. pressures for reform. Most experts were skeptical that the vote would lead to any significant power shift in Manila. But among many Filipinos, the notion that the balloting might lead to change seemed to take on a life of its own. Philippine voters might even provide the occasion for an all too rare peaceful transition from authoritarianism to democracy...
...OSCAR, FOR all his comic machismo, is not a flat character. He engages the audience so successfully in his plight as the cuckolded husband that he contradicts Wertmuller's purpose. The audience ends up liking Oscar more than the two women, whose romantic efforts and speeches are completely silly. Heck, Oscar's point of view even seems to make sense by the end of the film...
...first visible signs of strife appeared in November. The Dartmouth Community for Divestment (DCD), a heterogeneous group of '60s-style activists, built four shanties in the center of the picturesque Dartmouth Green to symbolize the plight of Black South Africans and to protest the college's South African-related investments...