Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human rights issue has become the centerpiece of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. His stand is popular at home; abroad it has won admiration mixed with puzzlement and even indignation. The policy ran into two major tests last week at diplomatic meetings more than 5,000 miles apart. In Grenada, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance found himself defending the Administration's criticism of human rights violations by various Latin American governments against a chorus of officials who argued that terrorism is more of a menace (see following story). In Belgrade, differences between the Kremlin and the White House...
...usual during routine operations, the tower nearest to it was unmanned. The men erected a makeshift ladder crudely fashioned out of iron water pipes stolen from the prison's plumbing. Frantically, the men scrambled up the ladder and wiggled under the 2,300-volt electrified barbed wire that ran 18 in. above the top. At about that moment, all of the phones inexplicably went dead in the prison and for six to seven miles around. One after another, the men began making the long drop to freedom...
...former vice chancellor of Oxford University who directed British-and later Allied-counterintelligence units during World War II; in Oxford. In his book The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945, Masterman recounted how the Twenty Committee (from the Roman numeral XX, symbolizing double-cross) effectively "ran and controlled the German espionage system" by feeding agents carefully planned false information, e.g., that the 1944 Allied invasion would take place in Calais, not Normandy. After the war, Masterman returned to Oxford and until his retirement in 1961 served as provost of Worcester College...
Evans seems to be drawn from Epps himself; Shadwell corresponds in word and deed to Henry Howells, a state senator who ran for governor in 1973 and is running again this year. His previous losing campaign clearly is the basis for this novel. And Epps's sympathetic portrayal of Shadwell--and therefore Howells--may well influence the voting in Virginia this fall...
...Hall, one of the last to enter the building, which he did at the urging of a friend. The experience he relates was clearly jarring: he found his file in an office and read his freshman proctor's slight unfavorable and unsympathetic report on him; on the stairs, he ran into the first woman he had slept with, and they stole upstairs, but the shallowness of the chance meeting stopped them from making love; finally, Evans was teargassed, beaten over the head with a policeman's club and arrested...