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...naming two temporary administrators. After the election, Kolvenbach reportedly told his fellow Jesuits: "I am going to do a lot of listening. I'm not going to make any statements about Latin America or anywhere else until I find out the facts from people who have been there firsthand...
...excellent firsthand account "Inside Castro's Prisons" [Aug. 15] by Armando Valladares is a rewarding sign of the strength of true democracy and a free press. The inhuman conditions of Castro's jails either have not been permitted to be reported objectively in the American news media or have been shouted down by the well-oiled and lavishly financed international Marxist left. You have shown bravery and independence in publishing this touching narration...
...elder Berezhkov charged that the State Department's demand to question Andrei privately, in an effort to establish firsthand whether he wanted to defect, was "an attempt to use our boy as a pawn in a new anti-Soviet gambit." Reagan Administration officials acknowledge privately that they were not averse to letting the Soviets suffer a bit of embarrassment over the incident. They also admit that any attempt to prevent Andrei's departure would have been legally dubious, since he was both a minor in the custody of his parents and held a diplomatic-status visa, which prohibits...
...later, after a transit stop in Paris, Andrei arrived back on Soviet soil and was surrounded by members of yet another international press corps. He said his plans were to return to school and possibly study to become an actor. If so, he would surely bring to class some firsthand knowledge of how it feels to be cast in a starring role...
...they don't, then there must be some misunderstanding, some misperception, some problem of communication. As one news report of the recent conference of Soviet and American peace activists in Minneapolis put it, "The issue of human rights sparked a heated discussion . . . and provided participants with a firsthand view of the obstacles to communication which so often characterize U.S.-Soviet relations." (The sadistic sheriff in Cool Hand Luke was more succinct: pointing to the rebellious prisoner he had just brutalized, he explained, "What we've got here is failure to communicate.") It is the broken-telephone theory...