Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traffic will be halted by the Harvard police and to the tower of Lowell House where Master Bossert will crown the new czar. Then, in an atmosphere perhaps even more mysterious, the silent procession of audience and actors will return, passing by candlelight through the darkened halls of Adams underground tunnel. This prelude is only the beginning of the surprises that producer-director Peter Sellars '80 claims to hold in store for anyone who participates in this version of the story done with cue cards but acted in Russian. With the promised "cast of thousands," the intricacies of Russian politics...
...Some 70 radical lawyers are suspected of aiding terrorists. Most celebrated may be Klaus Croissant, 47, Baader's attorney, who is believed to have carried messages from gang members inside prison to those outside. Arrested last July, Croissant jumped bail and fled to France, where, after nearly three months underground, he was caught by police in late September. He now faces possible extradition to West Germany...
...fabled Irish Republican Army in 1969 split into two wings: the Marxist "officials," who have temporarily gone underground, and the Provisionals, who carry on the struggle for Eire Nua (a New Ireland) on behalf of Ulster's Catholic minority. Since 1969 the Provos have killed 1,800, including 460 policemen or soldiers. But 1,000 Prove supporters are in jail, and the Ulster Catholics, who once idolized them, are weary of violence...
...underground manifesto questions Poland's system
...crude homemade press in Warsaw last week rolled 1,000 copies of Poland's newest underground journal Glos (Voice). The issue should quickly become a collector's item. Tucked in among articles on philosophy and international affairs was a seven-page manifesto that constituted the boldest challenge to Poland's Communist regime since food strikes and riots paralyzed the nation in 1976. It may be one of the most important political documents to surface in Eastern Europe since the near revolution of October...