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...captured battlefield communiqués. Specialists in Bonn, London, Paris and Washington sift through its stilted, often impenetrable prose searching for subtle shifts in foreign policy. Photographs of the ruling elite are scrutinized for changes in status, and cartoons are scoured for arcane political references. "Pravda," says its editor, Victor Afanasyev, "is read on the lines and between the lines...
...that many of the typical husband's attitudes-which are not exactly unknown in the West-are signs of disguised aggressiveness. In effect, the man is saying, "You're so free and capable, why don't you handle the chores for both of us?" Nonetheless, reports Victor Perevedentsev, a specialist on socioeconomic affairs in Moscow, the Soviet family is slowly changing from a patriarchy into a "biarchy"-equality in the home. Says he: "Women are rebelling, and they, of course, are correct in doing...
Once a book has been forced into exile, its author often follows. Solzhenitsyn was ostentatiously deported in 1974, while Andrei Sinyavsky, Joseph Brodsky, Victor Nekrasov, Anatoli Gladilin, Yuz Aleshkovsky and others were pressured in various ways to emigrate. Vladimir Voinovich, the author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, a samizdat favorite published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1977, was warned by the Soviet authorities in March that his life would become "intolerable" unless he left the Soviet Union...
...example, late polls showed Carter and Kennedy tied at 33% each, but the real significance was that both had dropped from April, when Kennedy had 42% and Carter 39%; the only gains have been scored by "uncommitted." Says Pollster Mervin Field: "There will be no enthusiasm for the victor, no matter who wins...
Perhaps the biggest irony of that day was that most students took the University's word that the shah was a progressive and beneficient ruler. "Most people saw the shah as pretty enlightened," Victor Koivumaki '68 remembers. "At the time, it seemed like a plausible choice because there was a real feeling that the shah was advanced." Class Marshal David Marshall '68 echoes Koivumaki, adding that the class day speech by Corretta King, speaking in place of her recently assassinated husband, drew much more attention. But Marshall attributes the absence of protest to ignorance more than passive praise. "Iran...