Word: olga
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...nervous state when she gave me the tape after lunch. It was wrapped in paper and sealed with Scotch tape. "We have already passed on other versions. I won't tell you to whom. This one should go with Olga. She has a child and ailing parents, you told me. Will she agree? It's very dangerous...
...table, and he put a notebook in front of him. He offered me a seat on the opposite side and began dictating his address to the nation and the international community. I went to my room, and Olga typed the statement on shershavka -- thick paper specially used for presidential notes. In the evening I asked him to sign and date it. At the top, the President wrote a request to anybody who received it to publicize this statement by any means...
...told Olga about the tape at night. She was sitting in an armchair, quiet. I switched on the TV set at full volume and squatted down next to her. "Olga! I have something serious to tell you. Are you ready to listen to me? Mind you, it is very serious. You can refuse right now, before I start...
...told her everything about the plan for the tape. Gorbachev and I had been demanding that Olga be allowed to go to Mukhalatka ((the communications center about 12 miles away)), where her baby and heart-deficient father were. And from there, we hoped, on to Moscow...
...stir the pity of Generalov, or even blackmail him, hinting that we would not sit here forever and that eventually he would be taken to task for harassing the young mother whose family had not heard from her for several days. But he outsmarted me and arranged for Olga to go escorted to Mukhalatka and call home under surveillance. On returning, Olga said she had not been allowed to make a call to my wife...