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...especially important for students and faculty at Harvard to know the case of Vida Tabrizi, a former sociologist at the University of Tehran who, according to the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran (CAIFI), had been doing research in the rural areas of Iran. For the crime of researching the situation of Iran's peasantry, she was arrested and sentenced to eight years in prison. CAIFI reports that in the past three years Tabrizi has been severely tortured; a large international outcry has apparently put an end to her torture, although she has not been released from prison...
Harvard's plans for RSKU assume that students will study conditions in Iran, engaging in research and conducting interviews. The case of Vida Tabrizi suggests these are not realistic expectations and that potential RSKU students await her fate. Harvard students and faculty in Iran would learn that the Shah is not anxious to eliminate the nation's massive poverty or reduce its 65-per-cent illiteracy rate (the government's own statistics). Wouldn't Harvard only be training the future Vida Tabrizi's of Iran...
...Most notably, Oakland's Vida Blue, Joe Rudi, Sal Bando, Gene Tenace, Bert Campaneris and Bill North; St. Louis' Al Hrabosky and Ted Simmons; Philadelphia's Dick Allen and Dave Cash; Minnesota's Bert Blyleven; Baltimore's Ken Holtzman; Boston's Carlton Fisk; Cincinnati's Don Gullett, and Graig Nettles of the Yankees...
Cynthia Karslake (Pamela Lewis) and Vida Phillimore (Barbara Reid) are the gay divorcees. Cynthia has become engaged to the ex-Mr. Phillimore (Kelly Fitzpatrick), and Vida is on the prowl for the ex-Mr. Karslake (Steven Ryan). What ensues is a flirtatious game of verbal Ping Pong and musical beds. The Asolo company is at its stylish best in The New York Idea, but perhaps an extra bow should go to Pamela Lewis as a sportive Cressida of the drawing room and the racing paddock...
...Mousavi Garmaroudi, a teacher with the ministry of education in Iran, was arrested toward the end of 1973. The Iranian authorities have never announced any charges against him... Vida Tabrizi, sociologist and researcher at the University of Teheran, was arrested in July 1972 and detained in Teheran's Ghas Prison..." (excerpted from the Newsletter of the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran...