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...owns the French weekly L 'Express and an American supermarket empire, has crusaded for years urging Western journalists to study disinformation techniques. To prepare a defense for the Spiegel trial, he solicited testimony from students of Soviet actions in West Germany, Britain and the U.S., including a Czech defector, General Jan Sejna, whose public remarks were the basis for the assertions about Strauss and Spiegel. Among other potential witnesses: a Soviet bloc defector who was involved in efforts to defame Strauss, and George town University Professor Roy Godson, author of a recent book on Soviet disinformation. Goldsmith said last...
...remarkable, obscure Czech poet wins the Nobel Prize
Some such chorus of international wonderment would have been quite understandable, for once again the Swedish Academy had awarded the world's most prestigious literary prize (now worth $190,000) to a man virtually unknown outside his own country. He is Czech Poet Jaroslav Seifert, 83. Only two of Seifert's 30 volumes of poetry are currently in print in the U.S., one published by a Czechoslovak society in New York City, the other by The Spirit That Moves Us Press of Iowa City, Iowa...
...almost equally obscure-so critics immediately speculated on the political implications in the choice of Seifert. Was the academy pointedly honoring a man for having spoken out against Communist censorship and harassment of intellectuals in Eastern Europe? Or was it avoiding the selection of more celebrated and more militant Czech dissidents, notably the exiled Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) and Playwright Vaclav Havel (A Private View...
Perhaps ambiguity was quite appropriate here, for Seifert is a man who has opposed both Nazism and Communism in the past, and yet is now tolerated by the Communist regime. Says Emigré Czech Novelist Josef Skvorecky (The Engineer of Human Souls): "He is a poet of the people. The government hates him, but he is so revered, so old and ill; he is too famous to be touched." And if the poet laureate...