Word: manness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans, similarly, are worried about how much influence the Soviet military may have on the Russian delegation. While the U.S. has only five officers on its 24-man team, the 24-man Soviet team includes five generals, two colonels and one admiral...
...inner freedom. To have to struggle against the KGB is a terrible thing, but what, in effect, threatened a Russian writer if, before his first visit abroad, he had refused to collaborate with the KGB? The writer would not have gone abroad but he would have remained an honest man. In refusing to collaborate, he would have lost a part, perhaps a considerable part, of his external freedom, but would have achieved greater inner freedom...
...Gradually, however, we are beginning to find strength within ourselves, and this means that sooner or later much can change. Judging by his books, it is impossible to say that Solzhenitsyn is 'persecuted and tormented.' He gives the impression of a man capable of standing up against persecution. He has already once preserved his inner freedom in prison, and will evidently do so again if he is once more put in jail. From this we can all derive strength...
Amalric's entire argument is in line with the very Russian attitude that the best man is the one who stands and fights -or suffers. Two of his books, both critical of Soviet policy-Involuntary Journey to Siberia and Can the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?-will be published in the West next year, but without the approval of official Soviet organizations. As a result, Amalric has been denied his hard-currency royalties. That, in turn, prompted him last week to send a second open letter to six Western newspapers: "Stalin would have executed me for the fact that...
...Israeli is also on trial-ex-El Al Security Man Mordechai Rahamim, who jumped from the plane and shot one of the raiders. While free on $23,000 bail, he has been serving as Premier Golda Meir's personal bodyguard. Advised by a battery of lawyers that includes one of the Eichmann prosecutors, he denied charges of manslaughter "under extenuating circumstances," maintaining that he had fired in self-defense. Witnesses claim, however, that the Arab had already been disarmed...