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...leaders. Foremost among them is the shadowy Karabakh Committee, which loosely coordinates the Theater Square demonstrations. The committee, officially disbanded in March, still has eleven active members, who meet regularly despite the threat of prison sentences should the government decide to act. "We lead totally open lives," says Levon Ter-Petrossian, 43, a linguist and committee member. "If they arrested us, they'd have an insurrection on their hands." The Karabakh movement has recently begun to wage a fresh campaign for pleading its case in Moscow. In October nationalist leader Khachik Stamboltsyan abandoned a 21-day-old hunger strike...
...Stalin's crimes have been splashed across the pages of leading Soviet newspapers, the Armenian crisis has virtually been ignored. Pravda has given only vague accounts of the Yerevan demonstrations; when articles have appeared, correspondents have condemned the protests as the work of "corrupt elements" and "extremists." Says Ter-Petrossian: "What we are doing is what Gorbachev says he wants: people participating in government decisions." Adds another Armenian who regularly attends the Theater Square meetings: "He should be proud of us. We've shown that there's still blood in our veins." At the moment, no one is certain whether...
Herschbach said the new transfers were accepted because additional housing opens up in the spring semes- ter, when students take leaves of absence. "Itis easier to find housing for people in Februarythan in September," she said...
.../175 Harvard/Falmouth, Ma. Greg Brown D 6-0/190 B.C./Southboro, Ma. Tom Chorske F 6-1/200 Minnesota/Minneapoli s, Mn. Clark Donatelli F 5-10/180 B.U./Providence, R.I. Scott Fusco C 5-9/175 Olten, Switz./Burlington, Ma. Guy Gosselin D 5-11/195 Minn-Duluth/Roches ter, Mn. Tony Granato C 5-10/185 Wisconsin/Downers Grove, II. Craig Janney C 6-1/195 B.C./Enfield, Ct. Jim Johannson C 6-1/189 Landsberg, FRG/Rochester, Mn. Brad Jones F 6-1/195 Michigan/Sterling Heights, Mi. Peter Laviolette D 6-2/198 Indianapolis Checkers/Franklin, Ma. Steve Leach...
...Franklin, who did his first bus-and-truck in 1954, is dauntlessly cheerful. "An exciting day before us," he declares, putting on an artsy accent. "Bringing the-ah-ter to the masses." Franklin nips at a bottle of Maalox and goes off to work singing "It's a beautiful day in Peoria" to the tune of Mr. Rogers' theme song. Burns starts his day with Mountain Dew, because he has checked the label and found caffeine prominent among the ingredients...