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Another possibility is the Soviet novelist, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn was on the Board of Overseers's list of honorary degree recipients two years ago, but could not get to the United States to accept...
Falling Bricks. The ignorance is understandable: the Soviet Union keeps itself as difficult to read as a Five Year Plan. Partly for that reason, the American curiosity persists, especially in the ambiguous atmosphere of Soyuz-Apollo, grain deals, Angola and the apocalyptic visions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in exile. Also involved, of course, is the fascination of one great power with its rival...
...Smith as Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times, Kaiser as bureau chief for the Washington Post. Both were relegated to Moscow's ghetto for the foreign press. Necessarily, their accounts overlap; they frequently describe the same events-the two were the first foreign newsmen to interview Solzhenitsyn, for example-and even the same routines by Comedian Arkadi Raikin...
Will you tell Solzhenitsyn that I said for him to go home to his own country and clean it up if he thinks it needs...
...Solzhenitsyn's extreme view of events was illustrated not long ago in a lecture over Madrid television. He dismayed liberals by declaring that the Falangist victory in the Spanish civil war had been a victory for "the concept of Christianity." Addressing Spaniards who view their government as a dictatorship, Solzhenitsyn assured them that after an eight-day trip he could see that they enjoy "absolute freedom...