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PRUSSIAN NIGHTS by ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Translated by ROBERT CONQUEST 113 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $8.95. $2.95 paperback...
Translator Robert Conquest has faithfully rendered the headlong pace of the poem...
...humanitarian gesture called attention last week to the plight of some of the world's most neglected refugees. His 66 sea-weary passengers were Vietnamese-the most recent group of perhaps 300,000 refugees who have fled South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos since the Communist conquest. About 145,000 South Vietnamese were brought to the U.S. by American sea-and airlift after the regime of Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon collapsed. The 90,000 Laotians who have slipped over the border to Thailand and an estimated 7,000 Cambodians live in wretched refugee camps that are maintained...
...race, with the U.S. shipping ultramodern weaponry to all takers in a frenetic struggle to retain influence and hold the Soviets at arm's length. The villain is the Shah of Iran, who appears as a double-dealing megalomaniac bent on re-establishing the Persian empire by military conquest, and secretly developing a nuclear arsenal with which to blackmail his Arab neighbors. By story's end, the Western world is in shambles, with America's banks engulfed in a depositors' panic, supermarkets emptied by frantic hoarders, and half the world's oil reserves contaminated...
...with constitution and courts. He declares independence from Spain and claim to the vast land he and his group are dreamily yet viciously floating through, starving as the Indians grow bolder. In the end, no one is left but Aguirre, who is last seen shouting his plan for the conquest of the entire continent to the indifferent jungle, as hundreds of marmosets swarm over his waterlogged raft...