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Using Their Elbows. Israel's policy is to accept Jews of any nationality or circumstance and to treat them with exceptional deference. The Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, headed by Russian-born Nathan Peled, spends nearly $300 million a year, more than any department except defense. Arriving immigrants are met by social workers, lodged in apartments secured by the ministry, offered low-cost loans and allowed tax exemptions. So generous are benefits that arriving Soviet army veterans resume the pensions they lost when they left the Soviet Union...
...words reached the West, one prevalent speculation is that they were brought to Denmark by Victor Louis, a Russian-born journalist (real name: Vitaly Lui) with close ties to the KGB, the Soviet secret police. It was Victor Louis who tried to beat Western publishers into print by offering European firms a version of Svetlana's Twenty Letters to a Friend. Either Louis or other KGB men are known to have placed authentic manuscripts in the West, often to try to convict the authors of anti-Soviet propaganda. British Journalist Louis Herren speculated that any KGB involvement might reflect...
...experimenting in mind alterations surgically erase one man's memories in order for him to receive those of another. The input source is Andrew ("Bear") Home, a hulking psychopharmacologist and a survivor of a Chinese brain laundry in North Korea. Significantly, Bear is also the son of a Russian-born mother. The man scheduled to receive Home's memories is a black enlisted man, sentenced to life in prison for killing an officer...
Died. Arthur Adamov, 61, Russian-born playwright of the absurd; by his own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); in Paris. As a young author, writing to expose his "anguish, masochism, perversions and preoccupations," Adamov turned out plays (La Parodie, 1947; L'Invasion, 1949) that earned him ranking with Beckett and lonesco as a founder of the theater of the absurd. His best-known work was 1955's Le Ping-Pong, an angry indictment of man's dehumanization by machines. "Life is not absurd," he finally admitted. "It is difficult, just very difficult...
...were told they could join their relatives in Israel. They quit their jobs, sold their possessions and waited for documents that never came. In desperation, the group finally wrote to Israel's Premier Golda Meir, pointing out that their appeals to Russian officials had "disappeared like teardrops in desert sands." Mrs. Meir, who is Russian-born, forwarded their "sincere and heartfelt cry of distress" to the United Nations' Human Rights Commission...