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...cars and several autos filled with reporters. Unable to shake his pursuers on a wild ride through Paris, Jubin finally brought the car to a screeching halt, jumped out and yelled: "If you don't stop following me, I'll shoot a hostage." The police and the newsmen turned back...
Solzhenitsyn, whose patriotism is perfectly apparent in his writings, apparently decided to counter these absurd charges by calling worldwide attention to the slanderous campaign against him. He candidly told the American newsmen that "times have changed. They can't abuse people any more without its becoming known." That was an obvious reference to the growth of informed Russian public opinion through the circulation of samizdat (literally, self-publishing) news letters and broadcasts by Radio Liberty and other foreign stations. Solzhenitsyn said he was jotting down the most striking charges against him and the names of his detractors. "Perhaps...
...refused to discuss with foreigners the charges against him. His best-known works (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First Circle) deal mainly with the victims of Stalinist terror. Last week, in a dramatic departure from his earlier reticence, Solzhenitsyn talked with two Western newsmen about his own precarious existence under an increasingly hostile regime. Said he: "A kind of forbidden contaminated zone has been created around my family...
...reception at Kennedy Airport was not particularly promising. Most of the 100-odd people waiting were newsmen. They and the curious transients at the terminal windows watched the fleshy-faced, white-haired old man, just short of 83, blow a few kisses for the cameras, then ease himself slowly down the airplane steps and shuffle over to a waiting limousine...
...have had each other to kick around for so long that the combat is sometimes treated as if it were a comfortable old joke, like the Laugh-In sock-it-to-me bit. But the issues involved deserve serious consideration. How much do the personal tastes and politics of newsmen color their treatment of a controversial public man? Where lies the boundary between analysis and advocacy? Is the press recklessly tearing down public confidence...