Word: misha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face, sometimes . bearded, now clean shaven, appears on most of the 20-odd books written under two names. More than 60 million of them have been in distribution worldwide, including two volumes -- Carrie and The Dead Zone -- that were presented by Nicholas Daniloff, minutes before his arrest, to Misha, his Soviet friend. Some dozen films have been based on King's fictions, and there are more on the way. He has earned over $20 million so far, including a $3 million advance for It, which fulfilled expectations by vaulting to the top of the best- seller list before official publication...
...waking nightmare that haunts every American reporter in Moscow. Nicholas Daniloff, 52, a respected correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, had been receiving persistent phone invitations to meet with a Soviet acquaintance named Misha. Daniloff, who was busy packing to leave Moscow after a 5 1/2-year stint, kept putting Misha off. Finally they arranged to meet in a park in the Lenin Hills near Daniloff's apartment. As they walked, Misha edgily pressed into Daniloff's hands an envelope he said contained newspaper clippings. Daniloff gave Misha a goodbye gift: two books of horror stories by Stephen King. That...
...Misha was hurrying off, eight KGB agents surrounded Daniloff, grabbed the package he had been given and hauled him away in handcuffs. They drove him to Lefortovo, Moscow's infamous maximum-security prison, where they opened the envelope and announced that it contained photographs and maps marked TOP SECRET. After an interrogation in which the KGB agents demanded to know whom he was "really" working for, Daniloff was stripped of his belt and shoelaces and placed in an 8-ft. by 10-ft. "isolator" cell. Though American reporters in Moscow have been harassed, arrested and expelled in the past...
After almost two days in Riga, a managably small city, Leningrad struck us as sprawling, huge, and complex. We switched teams in Leningrad; by 2 p.m. Rebecca Sheridan and I set off. Three hours later we were sitting with Misha Borlov and his family. Borlov's name has been changed. He is a scientist who was expelled from his job after applying for a visa in 1980. A few years later, officials voted to strip him of his Doctor of Science degree because of his "anti-political activity." Similarly, his wife, a chemist, is now unemployed. His daughter Marina...
...have not received mail in two months; they know that friends abroad as well as from inside the Soviet Union have been writing. Despite this isolation, and continued restrictions on their ability to work and study, the Borlovs were not bitter. We saw them once again on Sunday, and Misha told us with a mixture of hope and pessimism, that, once again, he was filing applications for visas on Monday...