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While in prison he had undergone a rough-and-ready operation for cancer. The disease now became acute again. Near death, he made his way to a hospital in Tashkent, where the tumor was arrested. The experience gave rise to Cancer Ward, a weaker book than his others. Yet the book rises toward the end to Solzhenitsyn's most direct statement of the complicity of everyone in the guilt of the past: "It's shameful, why do we take it calmly until we ourselves or those who are close to us are stricken? ... If no one is allowed for decade...
...open cities to choose from. Easily reached by plane from Moscow are the workers' Black Sea health resorts of Odessa, Yalta and Sochi, with their pebbled beaches, plump bikinied women and soft Mediterranean climate. Five hours by plane from Moscow are the ancient Asian cities of Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, with beautiful mosques and colorful bazaars. Northeast of them lies AlmaAta, a 20-year-old planned city that is the capital of Kazakhstan. The Siberian scientific center of Novosibirsk was opened to foreigners last year and tourists who wish to go farther out can go on to Irkutsk...
...buccaneering days of Stalin, Russia has become respectable as a world power. At home it has shown a measure of liberalization, and a pragmatic concern with prosperity that tends to discourage foreign adventure. Abroad, it has shown discretion in staving off any major, nuclear East-West conflict. The 1966 Tashkent Declaration, in which Russia acted as mediator between warring India and Pakistan, symbolized this new Soviet international respectability. But Moscow has had great difficulty in translating this image into concrete influence, partly because it seems basically divided as to its ultimate aims. Is it to be a conventional big power...
Less for Officialdom. The national papers have been trying to win readers, who pay two kopecks (the price of two cigarettes) per paper, by publishing more human-interest stories. Last year, for instance, they covered the Tashkent earthquakes, which would previously have been reported only in the local Uzbek papers. Izvestia recently ran a story describing how a bus skidded and fell into a lake-albeit in a very positive way. It reported that a policeman rescued six of the passengers, but said nothing about the other 64, who presumably were not so lucky...
Hardly at Peace. Efforts to implement the Tashkent peace plan have foundered on the issue over which the border war erupted: Kashmir. The Indians insist that further talks be broadened beyond the question of control of the troubled state; Pakistan will discuss nothing but Kashmir. True to the Tashkent agreement, each side has withdrawn its troops a few miles behind the cease-fire line. Diplomatic relations between the two countries have been restored, and Pakistani and Indian airliners once again overfly one another's territory...