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...London-based organization that investigates political repression, was charged with slandering the Soviet state. Last week he was sentenced to five years of exile in a remote region. The sentence was reduced to two years because of the year Tverdokhlebov has already spent in prison awaiting trial. Said Valentin Turchin, chairman of the Moscow chapter of Amnesty: "It was public pressure from the West that made them cut the sentence, and nothing more...
...Valentin Kamanev...
Venezuela. Nationalization of all oil operations will be completed by Jan. 1. Venezuelan Oil Minister Valentin Hernandez said the government would pay 39 foreign companies slightly more than $1 billion in cash and 6% bonds for their holdings. Exxon will get $512 million, Shell $240 million. The companies are not satisfied-Exxon reportedly had hoped to get $90 million more -but they have reluctantly accepted the government's offer and are planning to market nationalized Venezuelan oil in North America and Europe...
...longer knows why she is dying. Thirty years ago, in February, 1944, Antigone appeared in Paris at the time of the German Occupation. Under the threat of air raid and without electricity, French audiences packed the Ate lier Theater night after night to see Anouilh's wife, Monelle Valentin, play Antigone in the small patch of light which crept through the stage's skylight. For in her struggle they saw reflected their own. Whereas Creon represented the Vichy government, Antigone was for them the spirit of freedom...
Whatever the cause, Switzerland was once again suffering from one of its periodic bouts of xenophobia last week. "We just don't feel at home in our country any more," declared Valentin Oehen, 43, a parliamentary deputy from the conservative canton of Lucerne. Oehen and his National Action Party, an ultraconservative splinter group, proposed a constitutional amendment that would limit the number of foreigners in Switzerland's 6.3 million population to 500,000. Under the measure, more than half of the 1,052,000 foreign residents in the country would have to be deported. Even foreigners who have...