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...position. He refused to sign the most egregiously pro-Stalin public statements of his fellow writers, worked hard to document the Nazi massacre of Jews despite official Soviet disapproval, and was one of the first public figures to speak out against Stalin after his death, in his novel The Thaw...
...frost that has clung to the Harvard men's golf team for the last two months finally began to thaw this weekend...
...producer Moya Doherty was faced with creating a seven-minute filler piece for the 1994 Eurovision pop-song contest. "I wanted to show a modern image of Ireland," she says, "not the old green pastures. Irish dance is frozen in tradition, and I thought it's time to thaw...
...directly," says Waller. "You'll see the indirect stuff, sniping and terrorist attacks. But the Pentagon thinks the Serbs will abide the NATO presence through the winter months. It's snowing there. No one fights in the winter. The real test will come in the springtime when the snows thaw and the armies can move. The other thing, say these Pentagon sources, is that they'll just wait out the year...
...Qian Qichen and Secretary of State Warren Christopher, American officials announced that Beijing's plans to sell two nuclear reactors to Iran had been terminated. Not so, said Qian. The sale had been suspended only because of problems with the original site. Western diplomats, looking for signs of a thaw in Sino-American relations, think Qian's denial may be merely an attempt to save face back home...