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...Soviet Union he could at least publish a few underground volumes, but in America he loses his voice altogether. Eddie's resentment toward the Soviet dissidents who urge others to emigrate without ever having been in the West themselves is, then, understandable. Limonov repeatedly attacks that paragon of dissidents Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for instigating Eddie's immigration. For Eddie, Solzhenitsyn is a propaganda artist. In one scene, "the prophet" talks on television; while frustrated Eddie and Elena make their big statement by having intercourse in front...
That the Administration meant business had been demonstrated a few days earlier by an incident at sea 50 miles off the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. A U.S. guided-missile destroyer, the Lynde McCormick, drew to within a mile of the Aleksandr Ulyanov, a Soviet cargo ship bound for Nicaragua. Four days earlier, President Reagan had said at a press conference that the freighter was carrying helicopters to the Sandinistas. Over his ship's radio, the captain of the U.S. destroyer contacted the Soviet skipper and asked him what his cargo was and where he was headed. The Russian replied...
...luster in recent years. The address has been considered an "event" unto itself--separate from the magnificent pomp that marks each Harvard graduation--at least since 1947, when the circumstance was used for the unveiling of the Marshall Plan. A recent string of prominent speakers--exiled Russian writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn in 1978, then-West German Chancellor Helmudt Schmidt in 1979, and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1980--bolstered the reputation. But extending similar invitations the following two years, alumni officials were not quite so successful. They tried for then-recently-inaugurated President Ronald Reagan...
True to form, as with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Lech Walesa's only claim to fame and his only achievement is his contribution to the Cold War anticommunist prop, aganda will, had for this alone is he attractive to Harvard, which needs to present its face at least once a year...
Will insisted that a democratic government must be a "tutor to its citizens" and drew on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to warn that a society resting only on materialistic interests would become internally weak...