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Despite battling in the inferno, the Vietnamese have not lost their humanity. The violence which for decades they have been forced to contend with the resort to has not obscured their goals or tarnished their ultimate vision. Vietnam will be free, and Vietnam has taught America both the price and the value of freedom
Unwilling to resort to Stalin's mass purges and executions, Soviet officials have dismissed dissenters from their jobs, sent them to forced-labor camps, and confined them to prison mental institutions. Their most recent method appears to be a kind of involuntary exile: they allow a dissenter to travel abroad and then snatch away his passport. Last week, after eight months of research in Britain, Zhores Medvedev, a geneticist and gerontologist of international reputation, was called to the Soviet embassy in London where his passport was revoked and he was told that he was no longer a Soviet citizen...
...only really shabby area of town. The other half live on seven reservations, also in poverty, but with considerably more dignity. The Red Lake Chippewa are developing a logging industry, a sawmill and a small fish cannery. At Grand Portage Reservation in Northeastern Minnesota, the tribe is planning a resort complex. Says Ernie Landgren, 38: "Now we've got more opportunities. Sure, unemployment is high on the reservations, but things are improving...
However, environmental sources doubted that condemnation would occur. "I don't think Con Ed would go that far," one source said. "It would make them look like real ogres in the eyes of the public, and could only be a last resort...
...wrong man. For weeks the team had been tracking down the chief of European operations for Black September. They thought they would be led to him when they began following a Black September agent from southern Europe to Stockholm, then to Oslo and finally to a small Norwegian resort city, Lillehammer. There, in a public bath, the Septembrist approached another Arab, Ahmed Bouchiki, 30, who looked like the Black September chief. Realizing his mistake, the agent stammered an apology and left. Bouchiki sensed that he had been checked out for some purpose and later told his in-laws that...