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...cause of freedom in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In addition to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's jeremiads, Senator Henry Jackson accuses Ford of fostering "the illusion that substantive progress toward greater security in Europe has been made." As for the issue of Russian rule over the Baltic states, Jackson charges that "the President's signature on the CSCE documents will be invoked by the Soviets as a sign of the West's retreat from this crucial point of principle." Equally critical is Senator James Buckley, who asks: "What the devil is in [the declaration] for the West...
...Kursk, where the Wehrmacht, ironically, suffered defeat in the biggest tank battle of World War II. When West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow this week, he and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev may discuss plans for a project to build a generating plant in Kaliningrad, on the Baltic, that would supply electricity, carried through East Germany, to West Germany...
Caspar David Friedrich as a young painter on the Baltic island of Rugen in 1802. It was Friedrich's favorite posture: Homo romanticus out in the weather, saluting the crag...
...operating under serious handicaps. His chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, overburdened on multiple fronts, was tied down to regular attendance at the Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings. As the Supreme Court asked for briefs, Nixon's chief constitutional consultant, Charles Alan Wright, was off on a Baltic vacation cruise. Another top Nixon lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt, was disabled by a heart attack...
...Demands. Among all these projects, Solzhenitsyn singles out the Stalin Canal, built in 1931-33 between the White and Baltic seas, for close examination. It was here, on a 140-mile expanse of frozen wasteland, that Stalin first tested out his grandiose program to industrialize the Soviet Union by using a cheap, mobile and inexhaustible labor force. As Solzhenitsyn explains it: "Slave labor made no demands, could be transferred anywhere at any moment, was free of family ties, had no need for housing, schools or hospitals, and sometimes not even for kitchens or lavatories. The state could obtain such manpower...