Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forbidden Theme. Solzhenitsyn's memoirs begin in 1961, when he was living in the provincial city of Ryazan after having endured eleven years in prison, concentration camps and exile and a bout of cancer. A high school math teacher, Solzhenitsyn even by then had become the archetypal "underground man" of Russian letters. Writing secretly in every spare moment, he had already completed his novels on the forbidden theme of Stalinist prisons and camps, The First Circle and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Fearful that his dangerous activity might be discovered by nosy friends and colleagues...
...deliberately misinforming the investing public about technological advances in synthetic oil production. Meanwhile, the large oil companies have ignored coal as a source of oil and are turning to distilling oil from shale. In extracting shale oil the companies are determined to distill the shale above ground, instead of underground, which is the cheaper and less environmentally--destructive method. Technologists in the Bureau of Mines have estimated that shale oil can be distilled underground for less than a dollar a barrel, but, in the words of one Justice Department lawyer, "The world oil cartel fears that the cheap production...
...Portuguese Communist Party (P.C.P.), whose 36-man Central Committee collectively racked up more than 300 years in jail under the old regime, has benefited from the tight organization established when the party worked underground. Despite years in prison and exile, Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal, 60, Minister Without Portfolio in the provisional government, has become the best-known politician in the country. The Communist program is relatively moderate, calling for agrarian reform and nationalization of banks and insurance companies. Its heaviest support comes from workers and tenant farmers in the impoverished Alentejo region in the south...
...speech was filled with the names of black and African leaders. In a brief verbal history of blacks in America, she lauded "the black women with prices on their heads who organized and ran the underground railroad who carried guns, don't forget that...
...President pleading once again for more U.S. military aid to Southeast Asia. Antiwar underground radicals igniting a bomb at the State Department, hiding another in a federal building in Oakland. Peace marchers rallying in Washington, exhorted by Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Congressman-Priest Robert Drinan, Folk Singers Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. Demonstrators occupying the Minneapolis and Washington offices of Hubert Humphrey, temporarily seizing the South Vietnamese consulate in San Francisco. Senator Strom Thurmond bellowing through a bullhorn in support of the Saigon regime...