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...GULAG ARCHIPELAGO by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A passionate and excoriating account of the evolution of Soviet injustice by a victim (and patriot) who praises (and personifies) "the fearlessness of those who have lost everything...
...ceremony came four years late, but last week Soviet Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn finally entered Stockholm's Concert House to accept the 1970 No bel Prize for Literature. "The Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation have probably never had as much bother with anyone as they have had with me," said Solzhenitsyn at a Nobel ban quet. The laureate was kept from attending the 1970 ceremonies by fear that he would not be allowed to return to the Soviet Union. The prize, declared the bearded exile, "has prevented me from being crushed by the severe persecution to which I have...
...program department planned a series often-minute excerpts and summaries from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, the nightmare account of Soviet repression, to counteract Moscow's propaganda against the book. USIA ordered the project canceled...
...interviews with TIME, they defended their policy of not offending Communist governments. Keogh said that VGA has devoted "hundreds of hours" of air time to reports on what the American press was saying about the Solzhenitsyn story. He vetoed broadcasts of excerpts or summaries of The Gulag Archipelago because that amounted to "advocacy journalism." Said Keogh: "The Voice of America is not an international NBC or CBS. Detente has changed what we do in USIA. Our program managers must be sensitive to U.S. policy as enunciated by the President and the Secretary of State. That policy is that...
...nominate Alexander Solzhenitsyn for Man of the Year...