Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work in a mine [Dec. 15] that employs approximately 40 women underground. The women are expected to do the same work as men, and if they cannot they are dismissed...
...cause of the catastrophe has never been established, but a few years ago a writer named Michael M. Moonew popularized a theory that the ship was sabotaged by a crew member acting for the anti-Nazi underground in Germany. The film tries to dramatize this thesis, but the effort is unsuccessful...
Symbolic Guests. While his wife was in Oslo, Sakharov was in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius trying-unsuccessfully-to appear as a character witness at the trial of a friend, Biologist Sergei Kovalev, who was charged with circulating "slanderous fabrications" including an underground Roman Catholic journal. Still awaiting trial on a similar charge is another Sakharov friend, Physicist Andrei Tverdokhlebov. In his award speech, Sakharov described the two imprisoned men as "noble defenders of justice, legality, honor and truthfulness," and invited them to be his symbolic guests in Oslo. As the Nobel ceremonies ended, Kovalev received the unusually severe sentence...
...appeal will be argued this month. Nesson is now representing Morton Halperin, a former member of the National Security Staff, in a lawsuit against Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 on wiretapping charges, and is also representing filmmaker Emile de Antonio, who is making a movie about the Weather Underground, in lawsuits against the FBI and CIA on charges of invasion of privacy...
PATTI SMITH: HORSES (Arista; $6.98). The author of two published books of verse, Patti Smith has worked as a musician intermittently over the past year or so, mainly in New York underground night spots. Dylan turned up at a performance recently-an event that confers rock's official blessing. Her debut record, like her wild-eyed poems, reveals an artist who is gifted but undisciplined. Leading off with Gloria in excelsis deo ("Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine"), her dark voice projects a tough, fragile, street-girl image. The showcase number, Horses, invokes Rimbaud...