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Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn may be too celebrated to imprison, but there are other ways for the Kremlin to harass rebellion. The Soviets have just thrown a smokescreen over Solzhenitsyn's novel, August, 1914, by publishing 100,000 copies of Barbara Tuchman's 1962 history of the same period, The Guns of August. (Mrs. Tuchman, who was neither consulted nor paid, said the Soviet tactic was "absurd" because "Solzhenitsyn and I come to much the same conclusions.") As another harassment the Russian Supreme Court undertook to review Solzhenitsyn's 1971 divorce decree from his first wife...
Chalidze, who was recently threatened with arrest in Russia for such statements, is now both bemused and bewildered. "Why didn't they simply imprison me at home instead of waiting to take away my citizenship while I am abroad?" he asked. He intends to appeal the decision. If he fails, the highly trained scientist expects to stay in the U.S. with his wife Vera-and to ask the Kremlin for a bill for his higher education in a gesture of solidarity with Soviet Jews, who are often required to pay exorbitant "education taxes" when allowed to emigrate (TIME, Sept...
...Mozambique, the Portuguese even imprison lepers and people who are not lepers in the same prisons," he said, "so the disease will spread...
...Defiance. The KGB men tried to prevent Gorlov from telling Solzhenitsyn about the raid. They threatened to destroy his career as an engineer, and even to imprison him. Although viciously mauled, Gorlov refused to give in. So did Solzhenitsyn. In his letter to Andropov he demanded an investigation of the whole sinister affair, adding in a note to Premier Aleksei Kosygin that he held the KGB chief "personally responsible...
...regimes which Nixon and Kissinger seek to defend in Southeast Asia are among the most cruel and totalitarian in the world. Their leaders imprison their political enemies, commit indiscriminate murder, and impose a rule of terror and dictatorship on their native populations. And it is not out of some perverted sense of fairness or democracy that these regimes are being defended. It is out of a harsh, brutal calculation of what an imperialist, power like the United States must do to maintain itself in the world...