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...Soviet secret police tried for years to silence Russia's most famous living writer by framing him in criminal plots. The KGB, for example, attempted to sell to Western publishers, supposedly at Alexander Solzhenitsyn's own request, manuscripts that could have led to his imprisonment on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda...
...worked in such shadowy ways that no one, least of all Solzhenitsyn, was able to establish the secret police's role in these conspiracies. Since his expulsion from the Soviet Union last February, the writer has uncovered one such KGB plot that could have led to his arrest on treason charges. In the following article written expressly for TIME-the first he has published since coming to the West-Solzhenitsyn provides a detailed example of how the secret police can threaten the lives of Soviet dissidents...
...special irony of Richardson's invitation is that his war policies clearly violate the spirit of the lives and work of the senior class's top two choices for Class Day speaker: Russian dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the independent journalist I.F. Stone. Despite what would be sharp disagreements on specific political issues, both Stone and Solzhenitsyn have worked for the preservation of free expression and the steadfast defense of political liberties in their respective homelands. Richardson has shown himself willing to quash democratic movements in Southeast Asia, if need be through the indiscriminate bombing of people's homes, farms...
...Class Day committee's decision not to invite humorist Woody Allen, the senior's third choice, after an invitation to Solzhenitsyn proved impractical and Stone turned down the seniors' offer, may have been wise. Though likely to be much in political agreement with Stone, Allen is not an outspoken representative for the kinds of political concerns central to Stone's or Solzhenitsyn's work. But in going down its list still further and inviting a speaker whose political activities so dramatically contradict the humanitarian aims of the seniors' top two--and probably top three-choices, the committee made a mockery...
John R. McCambridge '74, chairman of the Class Day subcommittee of the senior class committee, said yesterday that the committee dismissed the idea of inviting Solzhenitsyn as "unfeasible." Stone declined the committee's invitation in March...