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Jackson began studying Russian in 1958 as a sophomore at Northwestern University after Sputnik went up. He put the language to good use a decade later as a wire-service reporter in Prague, where he interviewed "bewildered and uncommunicative Soviet soldiers" who helped crush the reformist Prague Spring. That encounter gave Jackson a glimpse of the plight of individuals in a police state, which became a major theme of his 1986 novel, Dzerzhinsky Square. As he left Moscow for Bonn, Jackson looked forward to reporting from "a country that works, a land of good wine and clean rest rooms...
Notwithstanding his reformist image, Gorbachev in the end may find he prefers the Kluyevs of conventional party practice over more fiery pro- perestroika candidates. At a meeting attended by Gorbachev to choose Moscow's delegation two weeks ago, Ivanov was confirmed as a delegate despite the Ogonyok attack, while the passionate playwright Gelman was not. There and elsewhere Gorbachev has shown a well-tuned instinct for the safe middle ground. When he dumped Yeltsin, the pro-perestroika Moscow party boss, from the Politburo earlier this year, Gorbachev was protecting one flank. When he later chastised Yegor Ligachev, a Politburo member...
...team, Skull and Bones. Dukakis, on the other hand, broke with the expected pattern, deciding against Harvard in favor of Swarthmore, a small Quaker college near Philadelphia. A D in physics dissuaded him from studying medicine. Instead, he threw himself into politics, working for the 1951 election of Philadelphia reformist Mayor Joe Clark, his first taste of squeaky-clean government. Dukakis still did not have much of a social life -- no one remembers a steady girlfriend -- and he did not join any fraternities because they blackballed people. He became a minor legend in college, setting up a dormitory barbershop...
Nevertheless, Sharansky's memoir has no happy ending. The brutal treatment of prisoners he describes has scarcely been tempered by the reformist policies of Mikhail Gorbachev. If the General Secretary is serious about extending glasnost and perestroika to all Soviet society, he will see to the publication of Fear No Evil at home. That would be a powerful impetus for restructuring the inhuman penal system he inherited from his predecessors...
...address was in sharp contrast to his opening speech on Friday, in which he denounced reformist efforts as threats to single-party rule...