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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopes and grievances to foreigners. Despite the KGB'S best efforts, Shcharansky refused to cooperate in his own humiliation. The secret police failed to get a confession from him during 16 months of pretrial imprisonment. He was held incommunicado and presumably was unaware that his case had provoked world wide protest. Even knowing that he risked the death sentence by not yielding to his interrogators, Shcharansky pleaded not guilty on the first day of his trial...
...opportunities are wide-ranging, from Michigan State's New Delhi-based seminar on the theaters of India and Southeast Asia to Boston University's program in Eastern Europe on film animation. Brown University sponsors the greatest adventure of all: a two-month course in the Himalayas called "Exploration." Under the supervision of a university geology professor, some 30 students study Indian history and languages, geology and mountain climbing. One special test: an expedition to the summit of 22,000-ft. Mount Devistan...
...mass meeting against the war. Mrs. Butterfield took the microphone and, to thunderous applause, endorsed a University-wide strike to protest the Cambodian invasion and the killing of four students at Kent State University...
Jimmy Carter, Southerner, President, last week stalked the ridges and swells of Civil War tragedy, fascinated, brooding. And in his mind, he retreated with the flower of Southern manhood across that wide field of death, back to the South, defeat and a century of humiliation that he feels he was somehow sent to right...
...vacation from mayhem. In the real world, he maintains an identity as Composer R. Bruce Montgomery, the man who has settled the scores for dozens of British movies. As Crispin, he spikes the suspense with some hilarious rustic intermezzos worthy of Wodehouse. Glimpses should win the protean author the wide American audience that, for improbable reasons, he has never achieved...