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...labor and five of exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Aksyonov, Voinovich, Kopelev, Orlova and several others have been forced to live abroad. Even the erstwhile hosts have been made unwelcome. Four prominent American publishers were refused visas to the Soviet Union, and Random House Chairman Robert L. Bernstein was the target of an anti-Semitic attack in Literaturnaya Gazeta...
...week for a dinner of stuffed capon and salade russe in the Trustees Room of the 42nd Street public library in New York City. The publishers created a minifair of their own: a table laden with U.S.-published books by Russian writers who are banned in the U.S.S.R. Said Bernstein: "The pattern of intimidation, of fear, of harsh sentences arbitrarily meted out to Soviet writers, scientists and thinkers who dare speak their minds is unacceptable. We will not be a party to it by conducting business as usual...
...essays are less impressive. One, titled Experiment and Traditional Forms in Contemporary Literature, starts off early with a solecism ("Contemporary literary works such as Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma . . .") and then goes rapidly downhill. George Steiner, Leslie Fiedler and Theodore Roszak, all of whom have commercial-publishing credentials, turn in rather shaky performances before the smaller houses of the little magazines...
...transfusion of cash into new institutions is putting severe strains on some older ones. An estimated 90% of the 4,560 savings and loans are now losing money. Industry Analyst Jonathan E. Gray of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. warns that, if interest rates do not abate, perhaps as many as one-third of them will close down in the next five years. Two weeks ago, the Economy Savings and Loan Association of Chicago became the first federally chartered institution to fail in a decade. Many other S and Ls will be forced to merge, as the stronger take over...
...Angeles, 80% of home buyers already use these and other nontraditional methods of financing. In one typical case, David and Jackie Bernstein paid for a new $295,000 home in Los Angeles with $1 10,000 earned on their old house, a first mortgage of $94,000 at 9.5% interest, a second one for $50,000 at 12%, and a third one from the seller for $41,000 at 15%. Then via a complex system of "balloon" payments, they were able to bring the actual interest rate down...