Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sergio Bitar, a native of Chile, is now a fellow at Harvard's Institute for International Development. John Karefa-Smart left Sierra Leone to become a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. Pavel Litvmov has been polishing his English at Manhattanville College in Purchase. N.Y., so he can resume the study of physics that he had to abandon in the Soviet Union. These men have one trait in common--all were political prisoners in their native countries, and all were aided by an organization known as Amnesty International...
...John Karefa-Smart, who turns 60 this year, now teaches preventive medicine at the Medical School. A former foreign minister of Sierra Leone, he was imprisoned in that country during the fall and winter of 1970. The government of Sierra Leone claimed at the time that a state of emergency warranted Karefa-Smart's imprisonment, but he was in tact detained for political reasons. Echoing Bitar and Litvinov, he cites Amnesty's apolitical nature as one of the keys to its success. "Amnesty is definitely helping the many political prisoners who are still in Sierra Leone," he says...
...smell of pine cut into my sleep in the late afternoon and I could hear the truck whining against a steep incline. I pushed open the back gate and the Sierra Nevada, red in the setting sun, passed by like a slow-moving train. The forest was hypnotic, nothing moved out there in the dark green silence. Darkness came in from the east, and falling back to sleep, I wondered what it was like in the Far East to have the morning sun come up over the Pacific, to have the mountains cast their shadow over the west...
...PURPLISH patches of sky that dropped back behind the Sierra Nevada were lost in the fast-moving lights of Reno. The streets were deserted when we got in about 8 p.m. but by that time the action was furious inside the casinos. The truck pulled over at an intersection and the driver said they'd be staying at the University of Nevada for the night and we were welcome to come but they couldn't guarantee a room. I was more inclined to keep on and another guy I hadn't really talked to decided to go with...
...spirit in jaded government, Brown has made most of his appointments outside the political parties. Many of his appointees are associates from environmental or antiwar crusades. Prominent among them are blacks, Mexican Americans and women. Claire Dedrick, 44, secretary of resources, was a vice president of the Sierra Club. The secretary of health and welfare, Mario Obledo, 42, a former Harvard law instructor, was once on welfare...