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Vashchenko's family has been at odds with the Soviet government for 20 years. Then particular Pentecostal practices forbid them to serve in the army, while their devoutness prompted them to withdraw their children from atheistic state schooling. Moreover, ever since Lidiya, her four relatives and two neighbors dashed into the U.S. embassy, the conflict has become more complicated. The Soviets promised to consider their visa applications only if all seven returned to their native city of Chernogorsk in southern Siberia and applied through normal channels. Fearing reprisals, the seven had steadfastly refused to leave the embassy...
...President Truman threatened to use atomic bombs if the Soviets did not withdraw their troops from Iran. In 1950, with American marines trapped by Chinese forces at Korea's Chosin reservoir. Eisenhower, trying to force a settlement in Korea, threatened the Chinese with nuclear weapons...
There were few grounds for optimism last week. Lebanese, Israeli and U.S. negotiators held their 26th meeting to discuss the conditions under which Israel would withdraw its 35,000 troops from Lebanon. They made no substantial progress, and on Thursday U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib flew back to Washington for consultations. Administration officials charged privately that Israel was stalling in order to thwart any prospect for broader peace talks. Apparently frustrated by Israeli intransigence, and perhaps to give King Hussein some timely encouragement, President Reagan said last week that the U.S. would continue to hold up delivery...
STUDENTS ON CAMPUSES around the country recently have forced several controversial figures to cancel or cut short speeches U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, for example, was driven from a lecture platform at the University of California at Berkeley, forced to withdraw is commencement speaker at Smith College when her could not be guaranteed, and repeatedly interrupted while addressing at University of Minnesota group. In an attempt to end such disruptions, a coalition of college presidents, faculty members and students led by the American Council on Education (ACE) last week issued statement urging the academic community...
...repeatedly shouted down by anti-war protestors. Eventually Johnson stopped speaking at all but military installations, but according to biographer Doris Kearns, the loud protest had a more lasting effect. Johnson's heightened awareness of the depth of his opposition, hammered home by his public appearances led him to withdraw from the 1968 Presidential race--and to call a halt to years of bloody American bombing in Southeast Asia...