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...heavy artillery was rolled out against that nation's greatest living novelist last week. In a major policy pronouncement, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda vowed that vigilance would henceforth be exercised to "sweep away" Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other "wretched renegades." The author's banned novels, Cancer Ward and The First Circle, which were bestsellers in the West, were excoriated by Pravda as "lampoons on the Soviet Union which blacken the achievements of our fatherland and the dignity of the Soviet people...
...ever given a foreigner. On the strength of the interview, which was published in several European countries, Licko later visited London, where he boasted of his supposed intimacy with Solzhenitsyn; he also signed an affidavit saying that the author had entrusted him with a manuscript of Cancer Ward and had asked him to place it for publication in England. In addition, Licko tried to persuade Western newsmen to print an assortment of fantastic stories and patent lies that made Solzhenitsyn out to be a traitor to his country...
...Bryce Harlow is leaving the White House staff to return to private industry. He served as the President's liaison man with Congress, a sometimes thankless job in which his quick, self-deprecating wit served him well, but not well enough to ward off the criticism of some Congressmen who felt that they were being shut off from the White House. Harlow turned down an offer from Nixon to head the Republican National Committee...
Three members of this season's Crimson squad turned in victories last year against Franklin and Marshall. Captain Pat Coleman won a 6-2 decision over his 150 pound opponent Doug Ward, whom he may meet this year...
...ward off the strike which began yesterday morning, Congress enacted a special law, signed by the President at 2:10 a.m. yesterday. The bill orders the railroads to pay an immediate 13.5 per cent increase in wages to nearly 500,000 workers...