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...campaign entered the final stretch, Wilson found his touch. At a mass meeting in Birmingham, he took on Heath's "Reds under the bed" campaign theme in classic Wilson style. "In three short weeks," he said, "the Conservatives have achieved what Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Brezhnev never were able to do-make the British Communist Party look important." As for the Pay Board's belated discovery that the miners were not being paid 3% above the average industrial wage but 8% below, Wilson drew cheers with the Churchillian parody that "never in the history of arithmetic...
...Writers Union. Yevtushenko refused the union's demand that he publicly denounce Solzhenitsyn. Instead, he circulated a letter of protest about the cancellation of his show, in which he expressed "bitter disagreement" with parts of Gulag. Yet he argued for disclosure of "the bloody crimes of the Stalin era documented in the terrifying pages" of Gulag. Echoing one of Solzhenitsyn's recent appeals, the poet wrote: "In our timidity, let each of us make a choice whether to consciously remain a servant of falsehood or to cast off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect...
...must be held responsible for any setbacks in the course of detente. There was, however, little cause for Kremlin concern. Diplomats in most major European capitals generally agreed that the Soviets acted with a degree of restraint in exiling Solzhenitsyn rather than liquidating him, as would have happened under Stalin. One measure of detente, argued a high-ranking State Department official, is "that Solzhenitsyn is now speaking to the Western press and is not in Siberia or in prison...
...Since Stalin had written them off, Hitler treated the Russians far more cruelly than other Allied prisoners...
...studied the Confucian classics for six years as a youth and never entirely escaped their influence. In his four-volume Selected Works, no less than 22% of his references to other writers are to the sage or his disciples-just short of the 24% devoted to Front-Runner Joseph Stalin...