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...reflections of a bystander trapped in Chilean riots? A note composed during demonstrations in Warsaw? If the author of those lines, American Traveler Richard Perkins, is to be believed, the city described was Paris. Furthermore, what Perkins saw during a six-day trip to France earlier this month was "so shocking" that he wished other Americans could "witness the tragedy being inflicted upon a proud and once free people...
Even before the President's announcement, Brazilians had been anticipating wage cutbacks. Over the past two weeks, workers have staged a string of strikes, including an illegal six-day walkout by 1,350 employees at two state oil refineries. It was the first work stoppage in the crucial energy industry since a military coup ousted the last elected civilian government in 1964. In Rio de Janeiro, 30,000 protesters marched; many waved placards urging the government not to surrender the nation. After Figueiredo's speech, which seemed to confirm the public's fears, Joaquim Dos Santos Andrade...
...problems with the five-member crew, the largest yet to fly on a shuttle. Barely a day after their flaming on-time liftoff, Crippen and company set out two commercial communications satellites, one Canadian, the other Indonesian. By week's end the satellites had completed their long six-day climbs to "geostationary" orbit 22,300 miles above the equator. "That's four for four," Ride announced proudly, tallying up the number of commercial satellites successfully launched by the shuttle...
...Chairman Edward P. Boland, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a fellow Bay Stater, to authorize a closed-door session for the eventual floor debate by the full House. O'Neill happily obliged. The next day, Massachusetts Congressman Edward J. Markey helped dynamite a six-day legislative logjam holding up a House vote on a nuclear-freeze resolution by persuading O'Neill to engineer a virtually unprecedented change in House debate rules. The resolution passed...
...them to Sewanee (women were not admitted until 1969). Says Dean W. Brown Patterson: "The remarkable thing is that the students are opposed to changes. They are the most conservative element we have here." When the faculty wanted to eliminate Saturday classes, the students overwhelmingly voted to keep the six-day week. (They were overruled.) Undergraduates must meet strict curriculum requirements, including a third-year foreign-language literature course, and must pass comprehensive examinations in their majors. A dress code of jackets and ties for men and skirts for women is accepted by all ladies and gentlemen...