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...same time, Bok joined four other university presidents in sending a cable to Soviet Premier Leonid I. Brezhnev protesting Sakharov's banishment. In the spring, Harvard scientists joined 25 other members of the National Academy of Sciences in suspending all formal scientific exchange with the Soviet Union to protest that nation's treatment of dissidents...
...hurts more deeply than any election defeat. We have to swallow it his time." So said Quebec Premier René Lévesque last week, standing on the same platform in Montreal's Paul Sauvé arena that he had used to declare the upset election victory of his Parti Québecois in 1976. Greeted by 5,000 cheering supporters, Lévesque (pronounced Leh-vek) seemed close to tears as he acknowledged that voters in Canada's largest, predominantly French-speaking province had turned him down by 59.5% to 40.5%. They had voted...
...nosed, liquid-propelled rocket-known in the West as the CSS-X-4, for China surface-to-surface experimental No. 4-is relatively crude. But it showed that China intends to allocate scarce resources to hold its own in what it calls "a world in great turmoil." Said Vice Premier Li Xiannian: "Our tests are aimed at strengthening China's defense against the hegemonist powers...
Under the owners' proposal, any club signing a "premier" free agent (basically, one drafted by eight or more teams) would have to compensate the player's old team with someone from its own 40-man roster (up to 18 players could be protected). But few clubs would risk signing any free agent but a superstar under that condition. The proposal is designed to damp the salary explosion that has occurred since the reserve clause, which bound players to their original teams, was overturned by an arbitrator in 1975. Today even middling players are being given $300,000 contracts...
...Montreal's smoke-filled Paul Sauve Arena, cigarette absent, trying to start his speech to no avail. "Mes chers amis," he said several times in an attempt to quiet the crowd's thunder. After a quarter of an hour, Rene Levesque, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois and premier of Quebec, finally launched into his concession of defeat in Tuesday's province-wide referendum. "Until next time," he told his supporters, eliciting another raucous round of applause...