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...area. The Kremlin greeted this heretic sally with customary silence. If anything, it has made the intellectual climate in the Soviet Union even more stifling in recent months. As if to underscore this toughening line, the U.S. State Department last week announced that Russia has a new defector from its literary ranks. Arkady Belinkov, 47, a Soviet literary critic whose best-known work is a biographical essay on Author Yuri Tynianov, has decided that he and his wife wish to remain in the U.S., where they have been visiting for two weeks...
...radically pink professor of promiscuity, delector of delights, collector of the sights, defector of all rights, rejection of the fight, defecating deities galore. And what's more you know the score. You turkey...
...radically pink professor of promiscuity, delector of delights, collector of the sights, defector of delights, collector of the sights, defector of all rights, rejector of the fight, defecating deities galore. And what's more you know the score. You turkey...
...Syrian border in a Turkish truck; then he went to Turkey and walked across the border into Soviet Armenia. In The Spy I Married, his American third wife, Eleanor, who later joined him for a time in Moscow until he threw her over for the wife of his fellow defector, Donald Maclean, has a different version: she says he told her that "he walked a good deal of the way." E. H. Cookridge, Philby's onetime colleague in the British Secret Service, who is now a multivolume espionage historian, provides an account that rings with spooky authenticity in some...
Only a strategy aimed at maintaining appearances can explain the recent "second Tet" attack on Saigon. Two weeks before it started, the highest ranking defector to come over to the allied side, Lieut. Colonel Tran Van Dae, brought with him the complete battle plan. Nonetheless, the Communists attacked, launching 26 battalions toward the city, more than twice as many as employed during Tet. With the allies waiting, it was a lemming-like march to almost certain destruction. Not a major unit got inside Saigon proper. Many of the attackers were so youthful and green and recently infiltrated that they...