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...began to reconstruct the book from memory. Once or twice a month, Lusia would take what I'd written to Moscow and send it on to Efrem and Tanya in the U.S. How she accomplished this is a story that cannot yet be told. By April 1982, I had finished another rough draft. But on Oct. 11, 1982, the entire manuscript -- 500 typewritten pages Lusia had brought back from Moscow and 900 handwritten pages I had recently completed -- was again stolen, this time by what can only be called gangster methods...
...Tanya and Efrem's anniversary, and we looked forward to clinking glasses with Mark Kovner when he stopped by later in the day: mineral water in our glasses, vodka in his. While we were taking our 1 o'clock walk on the terrace, we caught sight of a man inside our apartment -- a KGB agent whose face was familiar. We hurried in from the terrace and saw that eight people had invaded the living room and entry hall. At least some, if not all, were from the KGB. Most were wearing white coats. Lusia said, "They've come to kill...
...realized that resistance was useless and, in any case, we no longer had the strength. The KGB agents went outside. We kissed. Tears came to my eyes. Lusia said bitterly, "And on Tanya's anniversary...
When he meets the blond-haired, fair-featured Tanya, he baits her about racial characteristics. He asks her if she is "blonde all over." "If she had blonde hair," he muses, "would he have said, `Are you brown everywhere? Do you have brown public hair...
Ivlev, who often wears imported jeans and Adidas sneakers, has richly furnished the three-room apartment he shares with his wife Tanya and son Sergei. A sleek, ebony-colored bookcase holds a Korean color TV and matching video system. Ivlev says he paid 1,000 rubles ($1,600) for a Panasonic tape deck. "And we have better food because we shop at the open market, where prices are higher," he points out. Is their bank account growing? "It's not our aim to save money," says Tanya. "We want to spend as much...