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Harvard's Cyclists Fighting Hunger (CFH) decided to join efforts with the nationally based Bike-Aid for this year's cross-country bike tour to raise funds for public service projects...
Credo: there are real problems in Latin America--war, hunger, anarchy and Catholicism. The novel is an expansive, flexible literary form. It can mimic the diffuse, confusing format of a world run amok...
Then Andrei began describing what had happened to him. He had kept a diary of everything. How they tormented him with talk that he had Parkinson's disease and how Dr. Obukhov brought him a book on Parkinsonism and said he had got the disease from his hunger strikes, adding, "You will become a total invalid, unable to unfasten your own trousers." Judging from what Andrei told me and the symptoms that partly remain (involuntary jaw movements), I think he suffered a stroke or a severe cerebral vascular spasm because of force- feeding or inoculations...
...home, Andrei's condition was rather strange. On the one hand, he was very happy we were together again; we literally were not apart for a minute's time. On the other hand, he began berating himself for not continuing his hunger strike and for giving in to them. He had threatened another strike for Sept. 7, but when they discharged him he did not embark on it, unable to be apart from me any longer...
...soon as it was widely known in the fall of 1981 that Andrei Sakharov and I were planning a hunger strike to get my daughter-in-law an exit visa, the car was stolen. When we were on the hunger strike and not leaving the house because we were afraid of being grabbed on the street and forcibly hospitalized, the car was suddenly found. The state traffic police kept calling us to come for it. We ignored them. But at last, unable to lure us out of the house with the prospect of getting our car back, they simply broke...