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...world of Cambridge finishing my Ph.D. dissertation in linguistics at MIT after being a guest of the East German state for two years--fourteen months at the top secret security interrogation prison MFS Hohenschonhausen (East Berlin) and eight months a la Solzhenitsyn at the work camp Bautzen near the Czech border...
...Oleg was known as a big spender who, according to one restaurateur, "thought nothing of picking up an £80 [$192] tab." He had a wife and seven-year-old son in Moscow, but British newspapers linked him with at least five women in London?an Israeli student, a Czech student, two English secretaries and "a gorgeous Russian blonde,"?Irina Teplyakova, thirtyish and the wife of another Soviet official. Oleg and Irina had been seen together in London restaurants and nightclubs for months, and though she is not believed to be with the KGB, she defected with him. Oleg...
...Oregon." When I queried him about the current price of McDonald's hamburgers, he brushed it aside with: "I've come directly from the States. I haven't been to Scotland recently." Thereupon, he began flashing small cards at me with the penciled names of Czech dissidents, deeply involved in the Dubéek era. I instantly recognized them, but pretended not to know them at all. After a dozen tries, my friend sneered, "You're not very good at your job, are you?" I assured him that I was far better at mine than...
Last week his racket was shouting as he met Kodes in the finals. Though the volatile Czech possesses one of the strongest service returns in the game, he was no match for Smith's cannonball. By contrast, Kodes' weak second serve allowed Smith to hit sizzling, deep returns, then charge the net where he was virtually impenetrable. That was the difference as the two players went into a sudden-death tie breaker with Smith leading two sets to one. Needing five out of a possible nine points to win, Smith was down 3-1 when he connected...
Under a scorching sun in Tripoli last week, Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi beamed as troops equipped with Soviet rocket launchers and Czech armored personnel carriers paraded past his reviewing stand. Overhead, eight French-made Mirage jets zoomed by. Gaddafi, a lean, intense Arab zealot of 29, was understandably pleased. The parade not only marked the second anniversary of his rise to power; it also celebrated the establishment of a new Federation of Arab Republics, which Gaddafi had been instrumental in founding...