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Richardson was the senior class's fourth choice for Class Day speaker, behind novelist Alexsander Solzhenitsyn, journalist I.F. Stone and comedian Woody Allen...
Exiled Soviet Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn has been sharply challenged by one of his admirers in the U.S.S.R. The critic is Physicist Andrei Sakharov, spokesman for Russia's "human-rights movement." In a 3,500-word statement issued last week, Sakharov sorrowfully takes issue with many of the views that the Nobel-prizewinning writer outlined in his apocalyptic "Letter to Soviet Leaders" (TIME, March 11), which summed up his program for the future of Russia. Reflecting dismay among Soviet dissidents over Solzhenitsyn's conservative manifesto, Sakharov strongly disagrees with the writer's "utopian and potentially dangerous proposals...
Sakharov takes exception to Solzhenitsyn's emphasis on the suffering of the Russian people, as distinguished from other Soviet nationalities that have been victimized by the Kremlin. As a Russian, Solzhenitsyn was writing about what he knows best, Sakharov concedes. Yet, the physicist points out ironically, "it has been the special privilege of non-Russians to suffer forcible deportation and genocide, suppression of their national-liberation movements and oppression of their national cultures...
...letter, Solzhenitsyn asked the Kremlin leaders to abandon Marxist ideology, as the root of all Soviet society's evils. Sakharov believes that this plea shows a misunderstanding of modern power politics. He argues that a dominant characteristic of Soviet society is an indifference to ideology, which is used only as a "fagade" to preserve the power of the leadership and a totalitarian regime. Solzhenitsyn, he contends, makes the same mistake in attributing ideological motives to the leaders of Communist China, whom Sakharov regards as "no less pragmatic than our own." He also thinks that Solzhenitsyn has "overdramatized" the threat...
Swissair Flight 491 taxied to a stop at Zurich's Kloten Airport and Alexander Solzhenitsyn bounded up the steps of the plane with a bunch of red and white carnations. Minutes later he emerged, carrying in his arms his sons, Yermolai, 3, and Ignat, 17 months. Behind them came his wife Natalya, stepson Dimitri, 12, mother-in-law and youngest son Stepan, six months. Then the Solzhenitsyns drove to their home in exile, a seven-room villa. Deported from Russia in February for publishing in the West his account of Stalinist terror, The Gulag Archipelago, the novelist was concerned...