Word: pow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abstracted into a legend. For example, he lives as a millionaire in Switzerland. He calls for the revival of the Russian Orthodox church, a brutal arm of czarist oppression before 1917. He branded former Attorney General Ramsey Clark a "fluttering butterfly" for ignoring Russian dissidents, but visiting POW camps in Hanoi. Solzhenitsyn is among the most conservative of the Soviet dissidents, and in an age where people call for detente, his protests ring with Cold War echoes...
Nobel prize-winning economist Paul A. Samuelson said yesterday he signed the petition out of an "interest in having information on the POW's made public...
MONDAY: The Great Escape. 1963. Not the sequel to part three of the Leone flick. Steve McQueen and James Garner, unencumbered by jellyfish or ice-pick murderers, plot an escape from a Nazi POW camp. Flashy, but no "Grand Illusion." CH.4. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Part II Wed. same time...
...cash, however, is nonideological. So far this year, Evert has won $70,050. With endorsement mon ey from Puritan and Wilson Sporting Goods, she figures to earn around $150,000. Most of the offers to lend her name to everything from leg lotion and deodorants to toothpaste and soap pow der have been turned down. Explains Jimmy Evert: "It takes time to do these things. When Chrissie's not playing ten nis, I'd rather she not be doing things that will tire her out. This is still a game with us. It's not a business...
...apparent that the POW issue is hopelessly deadlocked at the present time, a situation which seriously undermines any hopes for peace on the subcontinent in the near future...