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Massive Protest. Solzhenitsyn's imprisonment would not only assure the immediate publication of the whole of Gulag, but it would also unleash massive worldwide protest-something that the Kremlin fervently wishes to avoid in an era of detente with the West. Instead, the Soviet leaders have evidently been trying to intimidate Solzhenitsyn into leaving Russia voluntarily. They probably calculate that as one more dissident emigre in the West, Solzhenitsyn would soon cease to command world attention...
Down two games to none in his match, Cashin began to unleash his overpowering stroke and came back to win the next two games by identical 15-4 scores. His loss in the fifth game gave Princeton the fifth match point it needed for victory...
...Khan-jar (Arab dagger) poised at the heart of international monetary stability. By shifting their funds from one currency to another, some moneymen fear, the sheiks could precipitate an unending round of monetary crises. Two weeks ago, it appeared for a moment that the Arabs had decided to unleash just such a monetary offensive. When highly exaggerated word that the Economic Council of the Arab League had voted to withdraw the estimated $10 billion that Arab nations have on deposit in U.S. and European banks hit the London Stock Exchange, a torrent of panic selling-described by some brokers...
Sandman followed the philosophy of F. Clifton White, a conservative Republican campaign strategist. He maintained a low profile in the final month of the race expecting to unleash a vigorous campaign effort. But this tactic failed when moderate Republicans refused to finance Sandman's campaign and he could not afford the radio and television time which he had originally planned to buy in a last-minute blitz effort...
...issue of New Times, out last week, is a slight letdown. Handsomely packaged, often stylishly written, Volume I, No. 1 does not quite live up to its billing. "Part of the excitement of putting together this magazine," Hirsch writes, "is that you never know what will happen when you unleash hardworking, honest reporters and ask them to bring back the truth." What sometimes happens, evidently, is that they bring back truths that fail to startle...