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...Drift," Pastan compares the movement of two sleepy lovers to the phenomenon of continental drift. A scientist would mumble about geology to explain a concept that always shocks people the first time they hear it. Conventional approaches to everything are dissolving, information is exploding, and the earth's very continents are slowly moving apart. Pastan dismisses the scientist's wishy-washy explanations simply: "It is natural law this drift...
...drawn seats, more than any other state. There, the Democrats, making an issue of Social Security as well as the economy, should carry at least two of the new districts. "Not since 1964 has Social Security played such an important part in a campaign," says Florida State University Political Scientist Douglas St. Angelo. In California, where the Democrats controlled the redistricting process, they are likely to win the state's two new seats and three or four others...
Shcharansky, a computer scientist, was arrested in 1977 for treason, espionage, and anti-Soviet agitation while a member of a group monitoring Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act an agreement giving citizens the right to emigrate and join their lamellas abroad...
Specifically, the rally--sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel--protests the five-year imprisonment of Soviet scientist Anatoly Shcharansky. Shcharansky today enters the 30th consecutive day of a hunger strike he started to protest his treatment at the hands of Soviet officials. No Western analyst knows precisely how many other prisoners of conscience are kept in the U.S.S.R. today, but the facts of Shcharansky's case and others that have come to light offer a dismaying picture of Soviet ruthlessness towards discontented citizens...
...California man, repeatedly suspected of being connected to an American scientist group which claimed responsibility for the assassination of the Turkish Council in Boston last spring was asserted Friday night by FBI agents...