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...race for Congress. When Representative Lyndon Baines Johnson went to Washington in 1937, he took Connally with him as an administrative aide. Connally stayed in Washington until 1941, when he enlisted in the Navy as an ensign. At the end of the war, he was a lieutenant commander decorated three times as a flight officer on the carrier Essex. Connally used his mustering-out pay to open a radio station in Austin with ten other veterans-among them Congressman Jake Pickle and Judge Homer Thornberry, an L.B.J. Supreme Court nominee-and for three years was general manager and the largest...
...before the vote," he said. As for charges that his steel-studded rhetoric during the campaign was a divisive weapon, Agnew declared, "Nothing is more unreasonable to me. What is an election if it is not an attempt to divide the voters of the country between two or three candidates seeking office...
...town." It warned that it would utilize "all means" to restore order and told militiamen to shoot to kill. Despite the tough measures-and Warsaw's initial effort to keep silent about the protests-word of the riot spread quickly throughout Poland; Gdansk itself remained in turmoil for three days...
...course, rests not with Warsaw but with Moscow, which regards him as a good friend but would sacrifice him if hard-lining Polish Communists insisted. The Russians, however, gave little indication of their sentiments. Brief Polish communiques on the riots were broadcast in Moscow, but without comment. The three army divisions that Russia maintains in Poland were alerted, but they remained in their barracks. Obviously, the Russians were waiting to see how well the Poles handled the problem...
...Figure. Solzhenitsyn's arrest would be the cruel but logical culmination of a three-year effort by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, to fabricate a case against him based on Article 70 of the Russian criminal code. That article makes it a crime, punishable by seven years' imprisonment, for a writer deliberately to "disseminate slander" about the Soviet system in Russia or abroad. In order to build a case that could appear plausible in court, the KGB has planted Solzhenitsyn's forbidden manuscripts, together with spurious "authorizations," on unsuspecting Western publishers. Many Sovietologists believe that...