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Finally, after three tense days, the barricades came down. Some 70 South Korean students who had shut themselves in the second-floor library of the U.S. Information Service building in downtown Seoul decided to call it quits, partly because of exhaustion and partly because of the quiet mediation of U.S. embassy officials. But as the students left, just after noon Sunday, each wore a white headband with the inscription DOWN WITH MILITARY DICTATORSHIP...
...travel, he will be represented at this week's Nobel ceremonies by Son Jaroslav and Daughter Jana. Although he is usually unwilling to be interviewed by Western journalists, Seifert received TIME Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and Eastern Europe Correspondent John Moody in his comfortable, slightly threadbare second-floor apartment in Prague. The 90-min. interview took place in Seifert's book-lined living room, where the mementos of a long life include a bust of one of his few heroes, Tomas Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first President. Seifert is a small man with questing eyes, his white...
Students complained of bathroom flooding fallen plaster, and soaked carpeting in all Canaday entryways, in some cases, even reaching second-floor levels of the four and five-story buildings...
...former Prune Minister who has been locally regarded as a martyr ever since he was executed during last October's traumatic coup. While his former deputy and usurper, Bernard Coard, still languishes in jail awaiting trial, T shirts depicting Bishop are selling for $15 apiece in a small second-floor room now known as the Maurice Bishop Memorial Center. Yet the New Jewel Movement remains coy about its political plans. Small wonder, then, that when Professor Adams asked the islanders whom they would like to see as Prime Minister, 77% would not name any local politician; 7% wistfully chose...
...year-old business theorist proceeded to humbly, but deftly, handle a wide range of questions from the approximately 15 reporters gathered in the second-floor Massachusetts Hall conference room. While Spence, currently the chairman of the Economics Department, appeared slightly nervous throughout the session, he showed the requisite coolness under fire, giving articulate--and broad--responses without getting bogged down in details...