Word: archipelagos
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...city bookstore to the taiga of the Siberian north or the dim, stinking cells packed with starved and wretched men; from the quiet classrooms to the stark realities of a hunted existence in a totalitarian state. "Oh, freedom-loving 'leftist' thinkers of the West!" Solzhenitsyn writes in "The Gulag Archipelago." "Oh, leftist Laborites! Oh, progressive American, German and French students! For you, all this counts for little. For you, my entire book amounts to nothing. You will only understand it all when they bellow at you--'hands behind your back'--as you yourselves trudge off to our archipelago...
Before his exile, Solzhenitsyn spoke of his "relief and calmness" in the accomplishment of his mission. This he perceives as a memorial to the dead of the archipelago. But his books are also Solzhenitsyn's gift to the living. Mindful of George Orwell's dictum that he "who controls the past controls the future," he has already wrested Soviet history from those bent on obliterating it and restored it to his people. In the future, he may also succeed in quickening the conscience of both the oppressed and the oppressors in his unhappy country. For, as he wrote...
True, that terror subsided after 1956, when, by Khrushchev's decree, millions were freed from the giant "archipelago" of prisons and camps run by "Gulag," the Central Corrective Labor Camp Administration. But the significance of Gulag lies in its thrust into the present?and future?of the U.S.S.R...
...army in the world should have put a stop to this act of torture without trial," he writes. "But I was a coward ... I said nothing and I did nothing... This picture has remained in my mind ever since. It is, after all, almost the symbol of the archipelago...
Moslem insurgents in the southwestern Sulu Archipelago, where the population is 95% Moslem, have recently mounted their largest attacks ever against the Manila government. Early last month the insurgents occupied the towns of Parang and Maimbung on Jolo Island. Then at dawn two weeks ago several hundred Moslem guerrillas infiltrated Jolo city, the island's chief town, while more than 1,500 attacked from outside. Taking government forces by surprise, they quickly overran the airport, occupied the headquarters of the 1st Army Brigade, and captured nearby Notre Dame College. The government counterattacked with more than 5,000 troops...