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...critics. Kissinger's treatment of Beam in Moscow may have been humiliating, but at least it had no adverse effect on U.S.-Soviet relations. On the other hand, relations between Washington and Tokyo have gone awry ever since Kissinger went to Peking in 1971 without telling former Japanese Premier TASS Eisaku Sato what was afoot with HI Sato's Chinese neighbors. Even if rumors of Nixon's proposed visit had leaked, some critics say, it would have been less damaging in the long run than Japan's subsequent loss of face. One specific complaint of U.S. intelligence experts who resent...
...world's great writers, an authentic hero in an age sorely lacking them, the man who for millions the world over has come to represent the conscience of Russia: Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Shortly after the dazed and weary writer landed in West Germany, the Soviet news agency Tass issued a laconic, nine-line communiqué. It announced that Solzhenitsyn had been stripped of his citizenship by a decree of the Supreme Soviet and deported for "systematically performing actions that are incompatible with being a citizen of the U.S.S.R." Tass added that his wife and children could join him "when they deem...
...ticked off some of the Russian press's misrepresentations of Gulag. "I am alleged to have written that 'Hitler's Nazis were gracious and merciful to enslaved peoples.' All lies, Pravda comrades! Point out the exact pages! Tass says that in my autobiography I admitted my hatred of the Soviet system and people. My autobiography was published by the Nobel Foundation in 1970. It is available for the whole world to see how insolently Tass lies...
...diatribe against him, the official Soviet news agency Tass made no attempt to counter Solzhenitsyn's harrowing documentation. Instead, the agency wrongly quoted the author as writing that the Czarist regime was "liberal and loving," and Nazi rule "gracious and merciful," in contrast with the Soviet treatment of its people. Then, a nationwide TV program accused him of "malicious slander." The attacks seemed to presage yet another massive Soviet press campaign against the persecuted Nobel-prizewinning writer. Still, Tass did stop short of calling for Solzhenitsyn's arrest...
...reason for Tass's hesitancy, Western experts surmise, is that the Kremlin leaders are now agonizing over how to deal with the Soviet system's most eloquent critic. Their dilemma is acute. If they arrest Solzhenitsyn, they can expect an unprecedented storm of protest from abroad. This, they know, would endanger Soviet hopes for Western economic aid. On the other hand, the Politburo can scarcely ignore Solzhenitsyn's defiance, as scores of U.S., European and Asian newspapers begin serializing extracts from the book...