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...little out of synche with sun time, and the train is running slightly more than three hours late. The engineers are trimming our station breaks and accelerating. There are official clocks on board, no time zone markers. The dining car nevertheless closes according to local time. Confusion and hunger for days...
...Soviets' hunger for foodstuffs and farm equipment should dominate the sessions. The U.S. delegation is heavy with firms in businesses related to agriculture, such as Cargill, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. and International Harvester Co. Says Alfred Murrer, a council director and chairman of the Gleason Works in Rochester, N.Y., a leading machine-tool maker: "We're the only country that can help them solve their farm problems...
...group's popularity peaked in early 1981, after Bobby Sands and other I.R.A. members in Maze Prison went on a hunger strike in a bid to be classified as political prisoners. But by year's end, after Sands and nine other strikers had died, sympathy for the I.R.A. had faded and the strike was called off. So far this year, more than 500 suspected members have been arrested in police raids, and violence has dropped to its lowest level since...
...Bridges of academic freedom cannot be built on the corpses of people like Anatoly Shcharansky," Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of law said at a rally for Soviet hunger striker Shcharansky last night at Holyoke Center...
...year-old Shcharansky, currently in the fifth year of a 13 year sentence, began a hunger strike this fall to protest Soviet treatment of dissidents...