Refusenik Vladimir Slepak Defies Soviet Hurdles to Seek Emigration
In Moscow, Vladimir Slepak, a leading dissident and refusenik, presses for emigration to Israel or the United States. He faces harassment, job loss, and exile while his wife Mariya and son Alexander pursue freedom, with Slepak’s Helsinki rights work coloring a life of quiet resilience.
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Vladimir Slepak
Herb Gold
Moscow
Slepak
Soviet Union
Israel
United States
Gorky Street
Nixon
No. 15
Siberia
U.S.S.R
Bein
Russia
Vladimir
Robert Toth
Los Angeles Times
Alexander
Muhammad Ali
Leonid Brezhnev
KGB
Mariya
Leonid
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Harvard grad turns wine hobby into paying business near San Francisco
Harvard MBA graduate Bob Finigan parlayed a passion for wine into Walnuts and Wine Inc. He runs a near‑one man operation hosting a newsletter for 10000 subscribers at 24 dollars a year, paying cash for tastings to preserve integrity. He credits early Radcliffe connections and a 1973 visit to Spain for his meet‑cute with Marimar Torres, whom he later married.
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UPI
Harvard
Bob Finigan
Penn Central Railroad
Philadelphia
Walnuts and Wine, Inc
San Francisco
Finigan
Tennyson
Boston
Chateau Latour
London
Radcliffe
Penn Central
France
Jack Shelton
San Francisco Bay Area
Torres
Spain
Senorita Marimar Torres
Senorita Torres
California
CAB approves low fare service from Midway
The Civil Aeronautics Board preliminarily approves low fare air service from Midway Airport to six cities within 500 miles and considers extending to 17 more by next year to revitalize the Southwest Side area. Potential 1,800 jobs, $11.1 million in property value gains, and 360 new hotel rooms are forecast.
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Chicago
UPS
Midway Airport
Civil Aeronautics Board
Southwest Side
Charles Percy
R-Ill
Midway
CAB
Washington
Cleveland
Detroit
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Midway Airlines
Southwest) Airway
Delta Air Lines
Delta
Cincinnati
Dayton
Columbus
Ohio
Indianapolis
Memphis
Speech recognition machines head to U S markets
New speech recognition computer terminals responding to spoken commands arrive in the United States next year. Quantum Science Corp says the first system from Japan's NCE Corp will be installed commercially. Early vocabularies span about 120 words with prices around 4000 to 5000 dollars.
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New York
UPI
United States
New York Science Research
Japan
NCE Corp
Quantum Science Corp
Quantum Science
Quantum
Mirek J. Stevenson
International Business Machines Corp
Bell Telephone System
DOT seeks aid to upgrade railroad lines
Illinois transportation officials urged a federal state program to fund early upgrades on branch lines before abandonment. The plan aims to prevent costly capital investments after lines are abandoned and restore shipper confidence. The Illinois Rail Plan 1978 update supports funding changes to keep lines viable.
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Springfield
Federal Railroad Administration
Ron Knox
DOT
Bureau of Planning
Gene McCormick
Congress
Illinois
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