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...Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" pronouncement of 1963, Reagan continued: "Today freedom-loving people around the world must say, 'I am a Berliner. I am a Jew in a world still threatened by anti- Semitism. I am an Afghan and I am a prisoner of the gulag. I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Viet Nam. I am a Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I too am a potential victim of totalitarianism...
...been moved south by the government in an effort to isolate an estimated 8,000 U.S.-supported contra rebels roaming through Nicaragua's five northern provinces. Villages are being emptied--some destroyed--in an operation that President Reagan, with considerable exaggeration, last week described as "Stalin's tactic of Gulag relocation...
...figured out that Harry Truman was Harry Truman's real name. I thought he was being informal and was really Harold Truman." At the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev admonishes his journalist son-in-law, "Does Izvestiya have to be boring? I suppose so, otherwise I would send you to Gulag." But Buckley's most cutting remarks come from newspapers of the day: Columnist Walter Lippmann assures his readers, " 'The present Cuban military buildup is not capable of offensive action.' " The New York Times reports that not even " 'a water pistol, as one official put it,' " had got through to Cuba...
Markov had been his country's leading novelist and playwright; he had also served a term during the Stalin years, in the Bulgarian Gulag. His prison experiences and literary skills combined to produce the scabrous picture of a nation enslaved. Yet in the eyes of the Bulgarian leadership that was not Markov's worst crime against the state. On Radio Free Europe the defector offered a description of Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov, a smiling brute on the order of Nikita Khrushchev. At a banquet the author catches the official acting like a Balkan Queen of Hearts, shouting...
...Henze, a sybaritic socialist with a well-developed taste for capitalist pleasures, has never let politics stand in the way of artistic success. He excoriates the Nazis, the treatment of blacks in the South and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, while overlooking such evils as Stalin's Gulag. Yet the opera's blinkered world view is secondary to its musical and dramatic substance-for the audience and, perhaps, for the composer as well...