[News Script: Solzhenitsyn] Page: 1 of 2
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DJV'IET. OFFICIALS TODAY REFUSED TO TELL ALEXANDER SOL7HENITSYM S-
(.&L-JX-[L"' -IN) WIFE WHERE THE DISSI1EFNT WRITER IS BEING
HEL OR WHAT CRIf4INAL CHARGES HE FACES. NATALYA SOLZIENITSYN.SAYS
:SHE TELEPHONEr T1E PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE T IS MORNING ,'BUT NO Oi.E
UOULD TALK WITI HER.
THERE' - 'PZCULATIO N IN OS COW T HAT SOL7HE NITS YN W ILL BE PUT 0 N
TRIAL FO'R' ANTI-SOVIET SLANDER. THE ClHARGE CARRIES A AAXIMU. t'
PUNIWHMENT OF SEVEN YEARS IN A LABOR CAiMP AND FIVE YEARS IN
EXILE IN A REMOTE PART OF THE COUfTRY. THE NOBEL PRI2E-WINNING .
AUTHOR W.AS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AFTER A SIX-WLEK OFFICIAL CA:PAIGT
AGAINST HIN THAT 'FOLLOWED TdE PARIS PUBLICATION OF HI-S LATEST
50K,''TH cLG C OHIPXLAG.'' T NE SOC K REVIEUs SOVIET ?OLICE
TERROR AND THE LABOR CAAP SYSTEM.
WAE VEN POL ICEJME PUS HEt I NTO T HE R I TER'S NOS COW AP AR TiiNT
YESTERDAY AND TCOK KIN AWAY. HIS WIFE SAID AJ OFFICIAL PinNED
LATER TO SAY THE AUTHOR WAS ARfESTfl NOT JUST TAKE IN
l"FOR QUESTIONING. SCLZiENITSYN ANTICIPATED HIS ARREST, AN D
LEFT A STATEENT SAYING HE REFUSED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS OR
WORK IN A LABdR CANP.
INTERNATIONAL OPINION THUS FAR HAS BEEN SEVERE IN ITS CRITICISi
OF THE ARREST. BUT THE DECISION, APPARENTLY NAT", IN T HE
J- - -R' HIGHEST COUNCIIyS .SEENS TO BE THAT THE SILENCING
OF ONE WRITER IS WORE IMPORTANT.
05:04ACD 02-13-74
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Solzhenitsyn], script, February 13, 1974, 6:30 a.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1963571/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.