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...conversation turned to politics, President Reagan, Central America, the arms race and Israel. Although we conversed freely on all these issues, when we asked for details about other refuseniks in Riga, prisoners in labor camps, and recent arrests Lev's voice fell to a low whisper and he removed a "magic slate" from the wall. He wrote what he could not speak onto the board and then erased the words. He gave me the names of people in Riga who wanted invitations from Israel and the names of refuseniks who wanted visitors. My discomfort and surprise at watching adult...
...wait! Nathaniel S. Trumbull '89, the North Yard representative, stands up to make another comment on the letter, only to be hushed by chairman Offutt. The Leverett House junior requests that delegate Trumbull come to the front of the room and secretly whisper the comment to chairman Offutt since the closed debate prohibits any further discussion of the topic...
...labor organizer who was among the first to be released. "My head was banged against a concrete wall. They put a gun to my temple and played Russian roulette. They put it in my mouth and twisted it. Once I was blindfolded for 17 hours, and they would whisper, 'You will be killed tonight.' " The new Aquino administration is considering the establishment of a presidential commission to investigate political assassinations and unexplained disappearances during the Marcos...
...other diplomatic fronts, the Soviets are just as active. They are cultivating better relations with the conservative Arab states of the gulf, even as they whisper about the possibility of re-establishing full diplomatic relations with Israel. Turning eastward, the U.S.S.R. is looking for ways to build bridges to China and hinting that there might be a way to resolve Moscow's long-standing dispute with Japan over the islands the Red Army occupied late in World War II. The Soviets even made a bizarre eleventh-hour overture to Ferdinand Marcos, congratulating him on his "re-election" and seeking...
...Apocalypse Now." The cacophany created through "The Beast" is a showpiece of the Dead's kind of musical power. "It's magic when you can bring 5000 people down to just the sound of your fingertip on a drum and then build it back up again from a whisper to a scream," said Hart in "Playing in the Band," a book by David Gans and Peter Simon...