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Staff Writer Patricia Blake, who wrote the story, is familiar with dissidence. A lifelong student of Russian literature and politics, she was the author of our cover story on the most famous dissenter of all, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Feb. 25, 1974). "I found what Sakharov told Marsh Clark particularly moving," she says. "He breathes compassion...
...snowy streets of a Vermont ski village and stopped in front of a restaurant, where TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin was waiting. A hazel-eyed woman got out and greeted Levin with a manuscript. She was Natalya Solzhenitsyna, 37, wife of the famed Russian author and exiled dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. With their three children (ages 6, 4 and 3) and her 14-year-old son, the Solzhenitsyns now live and work in Vermont. At TIME'S request, Mrs. Solzhenitsyna wrote about the families of Soviet dissidents and what can be done to help them. Here are her words, translated from...
...Russian Social Fund, created in 1974 in Switzerland by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, is dedicated to helping the families of political prisoners. I am the managing director of the fund. Alexander turned over to it all his income from the publication...
Exiled Soviet Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn has not been heard from much since he settled last fall in Cavendish, Vt. (pop. 1,264), with his wife and children. The Nobel-prizewinning author rarely emerges from behind the wire fence protecting his secluded 50-acre estate. He did, however, request a luncheon with Vermont Governor Richard Shelling in Montpelier. Over Chateaubriand, Solzhenitsyn announced his plans to stay in Vermont-until the day comes when he can "return to a free Russia." Meanwhile he has been doing some writing in Cavendish, and plans to start a publishing house of his own, which will...
...Moscow. A ranking official of the KGB personally accompanied the handcuffed prisoner to Zurich on a chartered Aeroflot jet. Once the plane was no longer flying over Soviet territory the official unlocked the cuffs and ex plained that Bukovsky would not be deprived of Soviet citizenship like Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was deported in 1974. Instead, the erstwhile convict was given a Soviet passport val id for five years of travel abroad. This final detail of Kafkaesque bureaucratic procedure amused Bukovsky. Said he: "I can still consider myself a political prisoner-but on holiday...