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...envisioned by Marx, had withered away. Yet it was under Lenin that the CHEKA was created-the brutal, terrorizing model for all later Soviet secret-police systems. Many former capitalists were sent to forced labor camps or summarily shot. It was Lenin who started the campaign of harassment against well-to-do peasants, which escalated into open warfare when thousands of detachments of Bolsheviks forcibly requisitioned grain and other products. It was Lenin who, after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the civil war, turned his full attention to building the gigantic machinery of rule that served as the instrument...
...aside spare moments to read many of the 700,000 words that participants had written about him. "I don't care whether they agree with me or dis agree with me," he said. "What matters is that they are here, talking with each other." Seminarian Joseph Collins, a well-to-do young activist who personally paid travel expenses for the participants, marveled at the quality of the debate: "I really didn't think they could interact...
Friends like Rostropovich represent crucial moral and practical support for Solzhenitsyn. Well-to-do writers and other intellectuals have contributed to Solzhenitsyn's support since his income ceased with the ban on his works. But friends are finding it increasingly dangerous to rally round the beleaguered writer. Only eight out of the 6,790 members of the Soviet Writers' Union were fearless enough to protest formally Solzhenitsyn's expulsion. Two of them were promptly expelled from the union. Solzhenitsyn's protector and publisher, Alexander Tvardovsky, was forced to resign as editor of the magazine Novy...
...however, it is important that parents learn how to recognize the symptoms of addiction (see box above). If they do not, or if they refuse to accept the harsh evidence, the chance of saving their child from an early death or a ruined life can be irretrievably lost. One well-to-do Washington, D.C., father, whose 16-year-old started on heroin at 14 and is now in a Virginia detention home, says bitterly: "I would not trust my son in my house. They'll just have to keep him away until he straightens himself out. I've been kicked...
...camp at Dahshur, barely 21 miles south of Cairo. Then, while thousands of Cairenes rushed to rooftops and windows to see what was going on, the jets wheeled to the north and attacked a second camp just one mile from Maadi, a fashionable suburb of diplomats, foreign oilmen and well-to-do Egyptians. Housewives ducked into basements, and the 300 students at Cairo's American College, three blocks from the besieged camp, were herded to the interior of their building as windows began shattering. For the first time since the 1967 war, antiaircraft fire boomed in central Cairo...