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...Western journalists at the Moscow headquarters of the Committee of Soviet Women. Reading from a prepared text, she said that she had returned to Moscow of her own free will. "I could no longer stand this family separation," she explained, referring to the two children by former marriages, Josef Morozov, now 38, and Yekaterina Zhdanova, 32, she had left behind in Moscow. She said she had been naive about life in the U.S. and had be come a "favorite pet" of the CIA. Said Svetlana: "Having found myself in the so-called free world, I was not free...
...London-based magazine had reprinted in 1981, a few months before it folded, a speech by its owner, Sir James Goldsmith, in which he accused the left-leaning Spiegel of having been manipulated by the KGB while researching a series of 1962 articles that challenged the integrity of Franz Josef Strauss, then West Germany's Defense Minister. In last week's exchange of statements in court, reprinted in full-page advertisements in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Goldsmith emphasized that he had not meant to imply that Spiegel had knowingly cooperated with...
Perhaps ambiguity was quite appropriate here, for Seifert is a man who has opposed both Nazism and Communism in the past, and yet is now tolerated by the Communist regime. Says Emigré Czech Novelist Josef Skvorecky (The Engineer of Human Souls): "He is a poet of the people. The government hates him, but he is so revered, so old and ill; he is too famous to be touched." And if the poet laureate...
FICTION: The Engineer of Human Souls, Josef Skvorecky ∙ Imaginary Magnitude, Stanislaw Lem Machine Dreams, Jayne Anne Phillips ∙ Something Out There, Nadine Gordimer ∙ Tough Guys Don't Dance, Norman Mailer ∙ A Weed for Burning, Conrad Detrez...
...ruled his tiny state for 46 years. But when Prince Franz Josef II, 78, stepped down this week the citizens of Liechtenstein (pop. 26,500) were assured that the regal line would be unbroken. In a quiet ceremony marked by a church service and the signing of documents, Franz Josef handed over the regency to his popular-and fervently modern-eldest son, Prince Hans Adam, 39. The Swiss-educated Hans, who for years has managed the family fortune, including an extensive art collection and real estate holdings, believes royalty still has a vital role. "The President of the United States...