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...Oxford and Britain's World War II Desert Rats, does indeed set prices for the industry. Reason: almost all other African producers see the advantage of selling to the De Beers powerhouse rather than engaging in cutthroat competition. Even the Soviets recently chose Oppenheimer to market their Siberian gems. As for those who dig his diamonds out, Oppenheimer pays his unskilled African laborers better than most, but it still does not seem like much: an average 78? a day, plus free housing, food and medical care...
...four Catholic priests, he said Mass in secret, using dried crusts of bread for hosts and wine made by letting grapes and raisins ferment in a glass. In 1953 his hard-labor sentence was reduced to house arrest in Lvov, but two years later, Slipyi was shipped to a Siberian old people's home, where he was put to work as a servant...
Last November a Soviet magazine ran the harshest indictment of Stalinism ever printed in Russia: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novel dealing with life in one of Stalin's Siberian concentration camps (which Khrushchev claims to have shut down). On orders from above, the Russian press heaped extravagant praise on the novel. People queued up far into the night for copies at Moscow newsstands; 95,000 were sold in a single...
Perpetually Cold. Solzhenitsyn writes authoritatively of a Siberian labor camp because he spent eight years in one. Twice decorated in World War II. he nevertheless was arrested in 1945 for criticizing Stalin, served his full sentence, and then was forced to stay in exile in Siberia. Only after Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech was he allowed to return; he now teaches school in a town southeast of Moscow...
...last, a dilapidated bus drove into the embassy compound and backed up to the lunchroom door. With it came Soviet Foreign Ministry agents, who urged the peasants to come along quietly. "Come now, let's not have a demonstration," said one. "Where will you take us?" a Siberian inquired. "To a hotel," replied the official. "Then we will arrange for you to go back home." By then, the women were wailing. One peasant yelled, "But I do not want to go back! They will arrest me and shoot me!" To a cluster of newsmen standing near by, he cried...