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Rostropovich's outspoken support of intellectual dissidents put him in constant trouble with the Soviet government. He was barred from travel abroad for three years. His refusal to sign letters denouncing Andrei Sakharov led to the onset of what the cellist calls "silent torture." When he gave refuge to his friend Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who spent four years in Rostropovich's home, the cellist's musical life in the Soviet Union was squelched. Radio announcers were not permitted to mention his name. At one point all his concerts were cancelled. Once, in a small town, Rostropovich saw men obscuring posters...
...main reason for Moynihan's resignation, however, was his dispute with many State Department professionals. Henry Kissinger had grown increasingly impatient with the outspoken, unpredictable ambassador, whom he considered to be often out of control. Besides, Kissinger did not like being upstaged by Moynihan. Above all, he was nettled by Moynihan's attacks on the State Department. Says a presidential confidant: "Pat was using political acupuncture on Henry, and Henry finally shrieked...
...date, Marchais argued instead that his party's call was to unite the working class with the salaried middle class. In a blatant appeal to Roman Catholic voters, he decried loose morals and praised François Cardinal Marty, the Archbishop of Paris, for his recent outspoken criticism of the lucrative French armaments trade. Marchais also scorned collectivism as a "barracks Communism that casts everyone and everything in the same mold." The French party, he insisted, does not want "uniformity that stifles, but diversity that enriches...
...might well have felt justified in asking for Moynihan's head, Kissinger said soothingly. "Moynihan is doing an outstanding job at the United Nations, and he has the full support of the President, the Secretary of State and the Department of State." Kissinger later endorsed Moynihan's outspoken views by saying that the U.S. would regard the U.N. votes of other countries on issues of importance to the U.S. as signs of how they valued their relations with America...
...Jericho and King Solomon's Mines. But always he felt hemmed in by the constraints upon blacks, and he took to touring and living in England and on the Continent, where, he said, color did not seem to matter. In the mid-1940s and 1950s he was an outspoken champion of civil rights; he moved for a time to the Soviet Union, where he thought blacks had more freedom and where he sent his only son to school. Condemned at home in the McCarthy era as an admirer of the Soviet Union and a friend of Communists, Robeson went...