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Foreign News, which describes the Kremlin's "new" disarmament plan, gives a brief glimpse of the Soviet general picked by Khrushchev to rattle rockets at Russia's near neighbors, and describes the death and remarkable funeral of Novelist Boris Pasternak, who finally won peace from the vituperation of his government...
...bitterness of recent years, when he was reviled by his stony-faced government and forbidden under pain of exile to accept the Nobel Prize awarded him for his poems and for Doctor Zhivago, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak once wrote: "How hard this life, and long my way of stone." Last week, the indomitable man who succeeded in creating some of modern literature's most eloquent testaments to the unconquerable human spirit came to the end of his stony path...
Twenty-Five Breaths. Not long before his final illness, Pasternak worriedly told an old friend he thought he had lung cancer. He begged that his suspicion be kept from his wife, Zinaida, so as not to upset her. Yet when he was fatally stricken, the Soviet doctors diagnosed Pasternak's illness as a heart attack and only later discovered it was the result of cancer spreading to the heart muscles. By then, cancer had colonized both lungs and was advancing from his stomach through the digestive tract...
...government that had so long scorned Boris Pasternak, now gave grudgingly of its best to save him. An oxygen tent was rushed to rambling, weatherbeaten Dacha No. 6 in Peredelkino, 15 miles from Moscow. Professor Nikolai Petrov, a cancer specialist from the Kremlin clinic, strove desperately to win a few more hours from eternity with another blood transfusion. Pasternak asked wearily: "Is it necessary...
...vein of his wasted arm, Boris murmured to his wife: "Dosvidanya [goodbye]." Moments later, blood gushed from his mouth. "Why am I hemorrhaging?" he asked. Trying to sound reassuring, Zinaida answered, "It is because you have pneumonia." The end came fast. With the last flickers of consciousness, Boris Pasternak managed to wave to Zinaida. She leaned over him, counted 25 gasping breaths, and then came the stillness of death...