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...English happened to be anything but fluent, but we had little trouble communicating, and we soon agreed to walk about Leningrad together. He appreciates the Soviet educational system because it stresses discipline and hard work (in America, he suggested, it is difficult to learn because no one has to study). His favorite American author: Mark Twain. His biggest political concern: Jewish emigration...
...Soviet Union in 1980 with two major novels in manuscript and a head full of ideas for new work. Since settling in the U.S. he has finished two more novels, both of which are scheduled for American publication. "I've got no time for nostalgia," says Aksyonov in fluent English. He teaches a seminar in Russian literature at Goucher College near Baltimore, and once a week his reviews of new U.S. fiction are broadcast to the Soviet Union over the Voice of America. In addition, Aksyonov and his wife Maya extend nonstop hospitality in their Washington, D.C., apartment...
...many levels, Israel knows its Moslem neighbors only too well it has met them on the battlefield in four bloody wars, all, with the possible exception of the 1956 Suez conflict, unhated by the Arabs. In addition, over 60 per cent of Israel's Jewish citizens, many of them fluent in Arabic, immigrated, often at gunpoint, or are the descendants of immigrants from Arab lands where they were subjected to centuries of discrimination and sometimes outright persecution unmatched even by Israel's treatment of the West Bank Arabs. If Israel does in fact hale its neighbors, such antipathy certainly cannot...
...Amfitheatrof's reports were Associate Editor John Kohan and Reporter-Researcher Helen Sen Doyle in New York City, who worked together on both the main chronicle of events and an accompanying assessment of the Soviet military's strength and political influence. Kohan and Doyle are both fluent Russian speakers who have traveled and worked in the Soviet Union. They have spent more than 26 years between them studying that secretive country...
April 15--Admission results are in, with some surprising contrasts to previous trends. We've really got the diversity problem whipped this time." exults Director of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '67, pointing to a Class of '88 which includes 900 students with red hair, 200 who are fluent in Sanskrit, and 150 who hail from the same small town in northern Nevada. Minority statistics continue to rise, though observers predict more problems than usual in persuading all those who accepted to come to Harvard...