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...Indo-China, first with the evacuation of U.S. supporters, then the rescue of the Vietnamese boat people (about 75% of the 62,000 Indo-Chinese admitted during fiscal 1979) and finally the starving fugitives from Cambodia (about 20% of the 1979 total). A second large new group comes from the Soviet Union, a total of 77,000 Jews, dissidents and others since...
Cuban leaders have also been trying to calm fears that some of the refugees may be criminals. Actually, violence of another kind is already established here. Omega 7, a clandestine anti-Castro group reputedly based in Union City, has claimed responsibility for 20 bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey during the past five years. "What happens if some of the refugees coming are Castro agents?" asks a middle-aged businessman. "There will be shootouts all over the place...
Manos said the organizers of the protest were not in favor of legal action against the Quincy House Film Society, and had not filed the legal complaints that led to the students' arrests. The group had organized only an informational picket and a boycott of the movie, she added...
...little history may be in order. Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, first used the term "third world" to refer to a group of non-aligned, developing countries that united in an effort to focus world attention away from the cold war rivalry of the superpowers to the problem of inequitable resource distribution between the rich and the poor nations. Culturally, these Third World countries have little in common; their economic and apolitic demands are what unites them...
There are hundreds more such groups, some tiny and short-lived, others worldwide networks with generations of growth behind them. Down on the South Shore, members of the Nichiren Shoshu Academy, an offshoot of a 13th century Japanese Buddhist sect, pursue enlightenment by frequent chanting of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. In Allston, Members of the Cambridge Zen Center (a perfect koan: why is the Cambridge Center in Allston?) meet for chanting of the Heart Sutra, talks on the way of Buddha, and "just sitting." The Bahais, a group formed in Persia and brought...