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...been prevented from delivering the lecture that Nobel prizewinners customarily give. In 1970, when he won the award, Soviet officials forbade him to travel to Sweden for the solemn ceremony. Gunnar Jarring, Sweden's ambassador to Moscow, refused to transmit Solzhenitsyn's manuscript to Stockholm by diplomatic pouch. Last week the long-awaited lecture finally appeared in the yearbook of the Nobel Foundation, which did not disclose how it had been obtained...
...language around the world. Herewith a glossary of current spy terms, most of them used in the West but some international: BAG JOB: In the U.S., an illegal search of a suspected spy's residence to obtain incriminating information. Also, sending secret data back home through the diplomatic pouch. BLACK BAGGING: Delivery of funds to an undercover agent or network by a courier...
Hegge relates that Jarring relented on two points. He received the writer informally for 20 minutes at the embassy and agreed to send a letter from Solzhenitsyn to the Swedish Academy via diplomatic pouch. But Solzhenitsyn emerged, says Hegge, with the decided impression that Jarring would be unwilling to transmit his planned Nobel Prize lecture in the same manner. Solzhenitsyn had intended to spend five months writing the lecture for publication in Stockholm. Since the Soviets regularly confiscate his mail, the pouch was the only means of transmitting it. Hegge is convinced that the Swedish embassy's rebuff...
...guards last week, not to contain the wildness within the cages, but to protect the animals from the inhumanity of man. In the past two years, the zoo population has been victimized by deliberate acts of brutality. A baby Australian wallaby left the protection of its mother's pouch and was stoned to death; a duck died with a steel-tipped hunting arrow in its breast. A pregnant reindeer miscarried after firecracker-hurling youths bombed the frantic animal into convulsions. Visitors have been observed dropping lighted cigar butts on the backs of alligators, watching the ashes burn through...
...When the Senators moved, who played third base for the "new" Minnesota Twins and was always pictured in the Topps baseball cards with a huge chaw of Mail Pouch in his cheek...