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That first evening we went to bed around midnight, but we were still excited and went on talking. Andryusha was trying to convince me that he had to start a hunger strike again in two weeks. Then he said that he had hope that maybe we could manage without a strike. I think he was afraid and really wanted to avoid a repetition. When we stopped talking he soon fell asleep. I lay with my hand on his chest, feeling his heart beat. First there would be several normal beats, then uneven beats, then two or three, followed by such...
...July 25, two weeks after Andrei was released from the hospital, he began another hunger strike. Once again he sent a telegram to Gorbachev. Two days later, as we were just about to go out, the doorbell rang, and Dr. Obukhov appeared again with his crowd of eight followers. There was something almost playful in his voice when he said, "Well, Andrei Dmitrievich, we're back for you." When I pictured them throwing Andrei down on the couch and giving him an injection again, I couldn't stand it. I said to him, "Andryushenka, just...
...lived quietly until May 2, 1984, though I dreaded the fact that Andrei would soon begin a hunger strike to persuade the authorities to allow me to visit the West for medical treatment. I had to go back to Moscow, and for some reason I carried in my purse the letters and appeals that Andrei had written, along with copies of my letters to the children revealing the hunger strike, and to Andrei. Why was I carrying them around? I don't know to this day what I was thinking of. As I was being led to board the airplane...
...power, it seems, that feeds man's hunger for truth. A hunger that accepts no substitutes, neither promises of material progress nor safe and comforting lies, and will overcome the most intricate and comprehensive web of censorship. Although the Marcos regime effectively controlled the Philippine media, there was never a period when some kind of "alternative press" did not attempt to report the facts and challenge the misinformation published by the government. In the later stages of the regime, such alternative press took the form of small newspapers that operated from day to day under the constant threat of closure...
Three years ago, Senator Christopher Dodd delivered a nationally televised speech on behalf of the Democratic Party opposing proposed aid to the government of El Salvador. "If Central America were not racked with poverty . . . hunger . . . injustice," argued Dodd, "there would be no revolution." That is the premise. And the conclusion? "Unless those oppressive conditions change" -- Can they? Can the U.S. will them to? -- "the region will continue to seethe with revolution." The choice? Either "to move with the tide of history" or "stand against...