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...last moment, Cabrera invokes Human Rights, assuming the voice of a mother wailing for a son left to die without medical attention in prison. But he does not assemble a moral argument; he is not even a Cuban Solzhenitsyn. He is a self-exiled superfluous man, out of touch with his society, venting his alienation in a very powerful book...
Revel faults Western leftists for short memories. Those who discount the warnings of such dissidents as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov and concede only "unfortunate exceptions" to the Communist ideal are displaying the same false optimism as those who dismissed rumors of Soviet concentration camps two decades ago. "Many independents on the left," Revel charges, "are 'Finlandized' from within-willing to accept all manner of self-censorship on behalf of Stalinism." A case in point: the refusal of many Socialists to face up to the meaning of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...Will has mixed views about Ford's handling of domestic issues, he is often scathingly critical of his foreign policy. After Ford refused to meet with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn last summer, Will suggested that "perhaps Brezhnev, in the spirit of detente, would refrain from seeing people offensive to the U.S. government's moral sensibilities--if it had any." He thinks Ford should fire Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50, calling detente "a policy in search of a rationale. The original policy was 'we'll have detente so we can get agreements', and it has slowly become 'we need agreements...
Peace Prize. The Soviet H-bomb pioneer was told he was barred from travel because of his knowledge of state secrets, but more probably it was because of his crusade for civil liberties in the U.S.S.R. Sakharov's distinguished predecessors, Authors Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago) and Alexander Solzhenitsyn (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich), were denied visas when they won Nobel Prizes for Literature...
Blasted Nobel. It seems improbable that the Kremlin will let Sakharov travel to Oslo. Writers Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn were not able to go to Stockholm in 1958 and 1970 to receive their Nobel Prizes for Literature. The peace award to Sakharov was even more objectionable to the Soviet leaders. Sakharov is still the U.S.S.R.'s most famous scientist and a Stalin prizewinner who was decorated three times with the nation's highest civilian award as a Hero of Socialist Labor. Nevertheless, his eloquent critique of Soviet oppression has cut even deeper than the condemnations of Solzhenitsyn...