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...international nongovernmental tribunal held last year in Washington, D.C., to inquire into the status of human rights in the U.S.S.R. and East bloc countries, Soviet emigrants painted a different picture. They described a sullen labor force griping about low wages, unsanitary or hazardous working conditions and trade union leadership that executes management's dictates rather than representing employees. Drunkenness on the job and absenteeism were said to be chronic problems that often resulted in shoddy goods. Although workers were assigned quotas, there was little incentive to exceed them because once someone overproduced, everyone else was driven to work...
Many of the twists and turns indicated that the voters were not greatly enamored of any of the choices placed before them. Though-and maybe because -Carter and Reagan won big enough early enough to settle matters quickly, the campaign wound down in a mood of sullen discontent. Turnouts have dwindled to as low as 11% of the registered voters in the Michigan Republican primary two weeks ago, a shocking figure by any standards. "Uncommitted" polled a third of the votes in the Nevada Democratic primary last week. More than half the voters are telling pollsters that they wish there...
...clubs), and a key defendant in the 1970 "Seattle Eight" conspiracy trial. Today three of Marshall's top S.D.S. colleagues of the tumultuous 1960s are still under ground. One of them, Weather Under ground Leader Bernardino Dohrn, has become something of a cult role model for the dwindled, sullen ranks of the New Left. Nor have Marshall's Seattle Eight co-defendants lapsed into torpor suburbanus. One was jailed only two years ago for conspiracy, another died after years of ruinous drug taking and late nights, and the others tend to espouse leftist causes that range in tone...
...Soviets seek to crush a widespread rebellion that makes mock of their claim that last December's invasion was merely an attempt to help a neighbor in need. The reality is that despite an awesome military presence, resistance goes on even inside Kabul-a curfewed, frightened and sullen city under the gun. John Shaw, an Australian journalist and former TIME correspondent, spent a week in its tank-guarded streets and markets, often under the surveillance of Afghanistan's dreaded secret police. His report...
...young English revivalists. Most of the Intensified! tunes have a loping energy, even when the recording quality is dense and almost smothering, as if the musicians were trying to play their way out of a bowl of tapioca. Both the Madness and Specials albums (the latter produced by the sullen genie of punk, Elvis Costello) are careful to preserve a spontaneous sound that just skirts being primitive. The groups rock a little harder than their forebears too. "We were the first band which wanted to combine punk and reggae," says Jerry ("General Dankey") Dammers of the Specials, "because we liked...