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...flake--he's organized crime. Reagan's a nice uninformed old man. Bush, Anderson--these guys are Trilateral Commission all the way." Andromidas lives in a world where the Skull and Bones club appointed William Sloane Coffin to handle the "left Jacobin mob"; where the government, trying to repeat Britain's "opium sedation" of the Chinese, paid Leary and Alpert and Kesey and all his pranksters to popularize LSD; where George Bush is nuts for considering nuclear war. It's an intense world. It feels good to stride back out into the Elm St. sun and talk with the elderly...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Getting His 2 Per Cent Worth | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

...women. Most of the audience literally ran out of the room during the first few minutes of this grotesque scene. Over the protests of Mr. Harkensson and his German companion, I disrupted his presentation and demanded that it be stopped. I take full responsibility for my actions and would repeat them even more strenuously if similar situations occur in the future. The presentation of such racist and repulsive films at Harvard University under the guise of scholarship is an abomination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Standards of Decency | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...your Thucydides, wherein you'll find that in 420 B.C. guards were used at Olympia, ostensibly to prevent an "invasion" by Spartans, who had been barred from the Games, allegedly for violating an Olympic truce. Purity has always been in short supply, and history does indeed seem to repeat itself. Jack C. Rossetter Elmwood Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1980 | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...interfering in Iran's internal affairs. Authorities in Soviet Azerbaijan and Turkmenia stress their ethnic ties with the Iranians. Finally, in come the Soviet transports, loaded with soldiers and equipment. Given the Carter Administration's declared determination to resist such a move with force, history might well repeat itself-to reverse Marx's famous aphorism-not as farce, but as tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Proximity and Self-Interest | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

Smith gave a repeat performance of last year's UConn game against Bentley College this year, sinking the game-winning bucket in the last seconds of that overtime victory. The cagers, who will face tough competition in the upcoming Ivy League tournament this weekend, will pin their hopes on Smith to pull them through. When she talks about the Ivy Championships, you can see the intense determination glowing beneath her surface nonchalance. For Karen Smith, this will be a "biggie...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Karen Smith: The Shy Center With A Magic Touch | 2/26/1980 | See Source »

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