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...certainly no accident that Pope John Paul II is head of the Catholic Church in these times. He has come along when the world needs him most. Having lived under Nazi and Communist regimes in his native Poland, he knows firsthand the dismal failure of totalitarian and atheistic ideologies...
...picked the Starwood Brigade, the ancestral village of his Hong Kong-born wife Maggie So, from whom he is now divorced. Officials even traveled from Peking to tell Brigade leaders to cooperate with Mosher. During the course of his nine-month stay, Mosher put together the most detailed firsthand account of village life in contemporary China by a Western scholar...
...elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Others in the Cheysson party described Andropov as looking considerably older than his pictures, or his age, 68, might suggest. They noted that the Soviet leader was tired when the meetings began and that he seemed to have lost weight. The French visitors' firsthand impressions supported the generally accepted portrait of Andropov as a cool, tough-minded leader. The Soviets have tried to present the former KGB chief as an urbane, affable, liberal and therefore less threatening adversary...
...skirts of Moscow. Outside, the sun has broken through the midwinter gloom, and in the courtyard below a father plays with his child among the birch trees. It is a scene of cheery placidity, but life is not placid for Vladimov. Like thousands of fellow citizens, he has learned firsthand about the implacable methods the KGB uses to intimidate those who deviate from prescribed norms of thought or behavior...
...defector's firsthand account of massacres and torture...