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Show Lives m Contaminated Zone The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, April 3, 1972 Soviet Writer Paints Poignant View of Struggle in Rare Interview Continued From lage One the Soviet Union, tivity asserting that there were some writers here doing se rious work but they were still unknown in the West because their work remains unpublished. He declined to name them for fear Jiat if lie were the one to do so, this might cause them harm. Moreover, his willingness to talk for publication and his recent appearance at the funeral of Aleksandr T. Tvardovsky, the editor who first published his works, and at a concert last Monday by his dose friend, Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist, indicated increasing public on his part after years of almost total seclusion outside Moscow. Both these public appearances ereated sensations, especially among young people who readily recognized the barrelchested six-foauthor though his photograph has not appeared here for years. In Some New Tolerance And despite a recent flurry of attacks on him in the controlled press, Soviet authorities have shown him some new tolerance. As of now they appear willing, however reluctantly, to permit the presentation of his 1970 Nobel award at a private ceremony in Moscow next Sunday. Solzhenitsyn declined to go to Stockholm for the regular Nobel ceremonies in December, 1970, for fear the Soviet government would not permit him to return to this country. knowledged, for authorities to block the ceremony but a shameful absurdity to do so. Nonetheless, lie w as cautiously secretive about the arrangements, except to disclose that he would invite Mrs. Yekaterina A. Furtseva, minister of culture; leading scientists, dramatists, musicians, artisis and academicians, as well as correspondents from Selskaya Zhizn (rural life) and Trud (labor), two Soviet newspapers which have so far not slandered me. Other Guests was bom and who had no children by his first marriage, doted on him. tern, The First Circle. than published anywhere in the West, because the Western versions were drawn from a manuscript edited somewhat by the literary journal Novy Mir to try to get it past Soviet censors for publication here in 1964. That was before Solzhenitsyn had completely fallen front official favor. But ha.ing been expelled from the Soviet Writers Union in November, 1969, he said he had offered the manuscript of his latest novel, August, 1914, to seven Soviet publishers before sending it to the West. None, he said, had even answ ered his letter let alone inspected the manu- Health 'Not Bad His health, he said in answer to a question, was not bad." But years in Stalinist labor camps and exile (for having criticized Stalin in a letter to a friend in World War II) showed in his creased though ruddy face and his rough workmans hands. Despite a serious case of cancer in s the and more recent skin troubles and other ailments, he looked well and without concern smoked filterGolden Fleece Soviet cigatipped rettes. Several times he jumped energetically from his chair at a small writing table to get something from another mid-fiftie- Others have said tne expected guests would probably include such inter renowned scientists and nationally Soviet liberals as Pyotr Kapitsa and Andrei D. Sakharov, and such cultural figures as Rostropovich, with whom Solzhenitsyn has lived in the suburb of Peredelkino for several vears. However imposing his worldwide rep- -' utation the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko once called him our only living classic script. er, he even rejected the that he himself had been a primary literary vehicle of the destabilization campaign with his powerful novel on Stalinist labor camps, One Day Moreen suggestion in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the only one ot his major works ever published here. But obviously stung by recent articles in the West German magazine Der Stern and in the Soviet weekly. Currents , room. He spoke vigorously but his voice was suiprisingly thin for so robust a build and his conversation was sometimes hard to catch because he would pause in and then finish in a burst long-delay- open-necke- d d world-famo- much easier for (me as) a comunknown student in provincial to gather material in 1937-3the Samsonov catastrophe (so (or the Russian general whose were defeated at Tannenberg.) Although the hut where I hved with my mother was destroyed by a bomb in 1942 rnd all our possessions, books and papers were burned, he went on, by a miracle two of tiiese notebooks (from his student research) survived and when I returned from exile, they w ere given to me and now7 1 have used them. it w as pletely Rostov about named forces 8 Allied by Liter-atuma- Gazeta, suggesting that he came from a wealthy bacKground, he went on at length about his hard childhood w ith his widowed mother making a living as a part-tim- e typist in where they were unable for 15 years even to get state housing. As a boy, he recalled the vulnerability felt because his father had served in the Czarist army fighting th. Germans and had received decorations which in my childhood w ere considered the mark of a dangerous criminal (and which) were buried by my mother and me out of fear of a search. And he insisted that both his grandfathers had been simple farmers, not moneyed landow'ners as some critics charged. Conceived Idea at 18 His next work, October, 1916, w ill incorporate extensive treatment of the social and spiritual currents in imperial Russia .i the eve of the Bolshevik revolution, he said. Despite reports that he has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties for Western publications of his novels, Solzhenitsyn said he has been living off Russian royalties from his first Ivan Denisovich, and some novel, money left by a friend and has only started drawing the JS0.000 in Nobel prize money. He still lives with Rostropovich though his wife and her family have an apartment in Moscow which he visits on occasion because he still lacks the required permission to live permanently in Moscow7. Initialy he was ill at ease and hesitant in his comments when faced with questions about the fate cf iconoclast Russian writers from Pusiikin to the present. And he refused to say whether he felt the program of destabilization launched by the late Premier Nikita S. Khruschev had been successful. and foreign literary historians have of words. Often his wife would explain his language more slowly, and clearly he termed him the moral conscience of a valued her advice in the whole procenation Solzhenitsyn was completely dure. informal as he talked about his life, famDeclined Answers ily and times in the Soviet Union. The conversation took place in a relaxed famOccasionally when a sensitive matter ily atmosphere over homemade fruit arose, such as the names of other writers he respected for serious work, or.e or the cake and berry juice. Clad in an white shift, other would point at the ceiling, suggestgray pullover and dark brown slacks, the ing microphones and he would decline to answer. novelist paused frequently for conversaIf the planned ceremony here takes His comments, even his reminiscences, tional asides with his pretty, place, it will mark a consiueiuble shift in second wife. more about the texture of a revealed Dmitreeva, Natalya the Soviet policy since 1958 when the late mathematician. Their blond, his life in Ue Soviet Union than about Boris Pasternak, another hitherto unknown events. son, Hermolai, played dissident novelist, was forced by7 official cn the floor or babbled in a cheerfully Solzhenitsyn did disclose, however, pressure to renounce the Nobel prize. that there was a better and fuller version private language to his parents. SolzheIt would be easy, Solzhenitsyn ac- - nitsyn, whose own father died before he of his stinging satire of the Stalinist sys-dark-haire- Such questions, lie maintained, were political and therefore more apptopriate for political dissidents than for nim as a witter. Rejects lit sponsibility Rostov-on-the-D- When only 18 ceived the idea of Russian defeat at 1914, the central massive novel. he said, he had conwriting the story of the Tannenberg in August, episode in his latest Nowadays, he went on, there are so many hostile external circumstances that In his present research, the novelist s who do said, he is aided by leg work at his request or even by entirely unknown supporters wno send unsolicited books and memoirs to help hint reconstruct the years leading up to the Bolshevik l evolution and the final collapse of the Czarist regime. Others attend many of the secret lectures "at w hich he is denounced, he said, and keep him posted. For his new book, Solzhenitsyn I should spend some time in explained, IT' certain historical buildings but they are now occupied oy government institutions and the authorities will not give me a pass. I am also blocked from access' to central and Oblast (provincial) archives. I should talk with old residents who are the last surviving witnesses. But this requires approval and help from local authorities which I also cannot get And without that permission, everyone shuts up. Because of suspicions, nobody will tell me a thing, and without authorization, I could be arrested at every step of the way. (Copyright) Jordan King Suggests 2 Capital Jerusalem -- WASHINGTON -(AP) King Hussein of Jordan sug- gested Sunday that the Arab part of Jerusalem should be the capital of Palestinians, while Israel should keep its capital in tl.a other part of the city. Two capitals in one city is a possibility that we think of seriously, the king said. He gave his views on the NBC program Meet the Press. The interview was taped before Hussein was admitted to Walter Reed Army Hospital on Thursday for a medical checkup. TV-rad- Open City should be an open city, Hussein said. Recognition that there is a Palestinian part of the city is a must, he said, and added that following that, w7e are open minded to anything and everything that would make Jerusalem Jerusalem the meeting place I believe that Jerusalem belongs to Abraham, Jesus and Mohammed. Recalling that prior to the 1967 war the seat of the Israeli government was in Jerusalem, Hussein said I do not see why the Arab part of the city should not also house the n government seat of the P As for adprovince ministration, there are many ways, and we are open minded. Jointly, separately, there could be ways and means. Hussein said again that the Arabs are not ready to go to war against Israel. He said also; of all Press Wirephoto King Hussein Speaks to Press U.S. Nod Due Bangladesh WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon has personally decided to extend U.S. diplomatic recognition to Bangladesh early this week, it was learned Sunday. Nixon sun-eyethe entire South Asian scene and decided it would be best to recognize the newly independent nation now, administration officials said. Bangladesh was formed from East Pakistan during a brief war early last December when Indian troops, at the direction of Prime Minister Indira Ghandi, crossed the border to help the rebelling Bengalis. d jj kobacolqr developed & printed . r tles-tinia- Proper Context On his plan to transform his kingdom into a federal state he said that it puts .the problem of the people of Palestine in the proper context. They are yearning to have their identity, to come together on the land of Palestine, and it (the plan) offers opportunity to the world, the Iraelis to redress the included, committed against wrongs them and to begin an era of lasting peace. Not the Arabs, but Israel to is raising talks. peace On relations with Egypt, unfortunately we are not coordinating as we used to with our friends in Egypt. He is convinced Palestinians were forced by the Israelis to go to the polls in the President said and public initiative Nixons the felt been by have pressure tetailers. 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