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First-year roommates, however, can trace this desire back to his early days on the both the Undergraduate and Roomie Councils. Subramanian, says Eugene D. Stern '91-'92, is obsessed with his council jobs...
...very, very involved in his political doings," says Stern. "He takes it all very seriously. He worries a lot about it. He's very committed, very serious, very earnest...
...always thinking up things," Stern continues. "He's often thought up grandiose schemes. Sometimes he gets ideas and he gets very very excited about them. He would always be thinking about `well, the U.C. should do this' and `the U.C. should do that.' When I was living with him I knew more about the U.C. than probably most U.C. members...
...great-grandfather were National Party politicians, and his uncle J.G. Strydom was a Prime Minister. He was twelve years old in 1948, when his father became a Member of Parliament and the National Party rose to power on the platform of Grand Apartheid. While he modeled himself on his stern and unyielding father, his brother Willem, 61, who became a journalist and a vocal critic of apartheid, took after their more moderate mother. F.W., says his brother, "was always part of the Establishment, always a conformist...
Moscow gave the impression that it had been caught unawares, but it might be more accurate to say that officials turned a blind eye. Last August, for instance, the Central Committee responded to peaceful protests in the Baltics with stern warnings. But the simultaneous railroad blockade of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijanis met with official silence. Armenian activists in Moscow claim that in the weeks leading up to the crisis, they bombarded Gorbachev, the KGB and the Interior Ministry with telegrams and letters warning of an imminent...