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DAVID COHEN-CORVAL, of Paris-based video-game firm Nevrax, on French government plans to subsidize video games to preserve European "culture and values...
...still don 't know whether I'm free or still in prison. I've talked about nothing else but my life in prison since I arrived here. " The first political prisoner ever traded by the Soviets, Bukovsky, 33, had just been swapped for Chilean Communist Luis Corvalán (TIME, Dec. 27). A native of a small town in eastern Russia, Bukovsky was serving a seven-year sentence for "anti-Soviet agitation " in Vladimir Prison, about 100 miles northeast of Moscow, when he was unexpectedly flown to Switzerland. In his flower-decorated Zurich hotel room, Bukovsky last...
...security wraps. As the mystery unfolded last week, the U.S. Government acknowledged its crucial role as intermediary between Chile and the U.S.S.R., which have no diplomatic relations. Last month the Chilean junta, anxious to polish up its image in Washington, released about 300 political prisoners, while holding on to Corvalán for an exchange that would have dramatic public relations value. Washington suggested that Bukovsky would be a candidate for a swap. Acting as go-betweens in discussions between Chilean and Soviet diplomats in Washington were the State Department's Harry Shlaudeman and the National Security Council...
...Soviets were intrigued from the start by the idea of the exchange," noted one top U.S. official. Indeed, the Kremlin had long and loudly campaigned for the release of Corvalán, who headed Latin America's largest Communist Party and holds the Order of Lenin, the Soviets' top peacetime decoration. "Corvalán is a splendid prize for the Kremlin," observed British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz. "He can now be set up as the highly visible and potent center for Communist opposition to the Chilean junta." Bukovsky, on the other hand, had proved to be a considerable embarrassment...
...exchange. At a Washington press conference, Chilean Ambassador Manuel Trucco declared that 383 Chilean political prisoners had also been freed recently, neglecting to mention that 650 others are still behind bars. In Moscow the official press agency, Tass, jubilantly reported that the Soviet government had provided Corvalán with the "opportunity of coming to the U.S.S.R.," without mentioning Bukovsky. At week's end one respected Latin American newspaper. Buenos Aires' La Opinion, commented: "The exchange demonstrates that Santiago and Moscow have very similar concepts about the value of freedom and of people; both invoke elevated principles...