Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he shared in the family wealth, estimated at $1.5 billion, he spurned most of its superficial trappings. "He held out for a simple, sensible kind of life," said Blanchette, his wife of 45 years. Five days a week, he walked or took the crosstown bus from his apartment to his office in Manhattan; on weekends at his country estate twelve miles north of the city, he relaxed by trimming the rose bushes or chopping firewood...
...barricades were a number of Western journalists and diplomats, including Second Secretary Raymond F. Smith, who was sent by the U.S. embassy as an observer but was refused admission. Also gathered outside were about 50 activists and other supporters of Shcharansky. One was an old friend, Irina Orlov, wife of Physicist Yuri Orlov, who was sentenced to twelve years last May for having founded the first Helsinki Watch Committee. Two of the Soviet Union's best-known "refuseniks," who have been denied visas to Israel, came to show their sympathy for Shcharansky. They were Alexander Lerner, the former head...
...April, during my interrogation, those conducting the case warned me that the position I had taken during the investigation made possible a sentence of 15 years to death. But if I agreed to cooperate with them, I would be freed soon and would be quickly reunited with my wife. Five years ago, I applied to emigrate to Israel. Now, as never before, I am far from my dreams...
...wife and my people, I can only say, 'Next year in Jerusalem.' To this court, which decided my fate in advance, I say nothing...
...week to protest making it easy for draft dodgers. Teen-agers throughout the country circulated petitions demanding equality in the conscription system and urging that religious girls be required to do some useful nonmilitary service for the nation. Unexpected support for the opposition came from the Premier's wife, Aliza Begin, whose two daughters, Hasya, 32, and Leah, 30, served in the Israel Defense Forces. "Why should my daughter be drafted, and someone else's not be?" she asked. "There's injustice in that...