What this
woman
pays for Pasternak's friendship
SOMEWHERE in a Russian prison the weman
Boris Pasternak loved is beginning
a new
day. She knows it will lead nowhere. She won- ders, perhaps listlessly, if the world has quite
THE CHINA MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1981.
BORIS PASTERNAK
RIP
LONG LIVE CO-EXISTENCE
HE DAREN'T EVEN CO-EXIST WITH THE DEAD
They met ay equals, for he ṛpied his work, she offered him
forgotten her. If the name Olga Ivinskaya means was tiven a comparatively un tur complete loyalty. And they anything outside the black lists of Russian official- writer and poet and they were hath satineel,
moved in the surre aspiring Olga, with her wiend. flat-
dom.
The story of Olga Ivinskaya's friendship with Boris Pasternak began 16 years ago.
Site lood put berota a zuloa the second lane. Her first husband, a parte official was the father her dracht Inna. coastted sucide di 1940. Her second lapsband, father
Lun Dimitry, had cfiest in the
7. that was writing.
A new world
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in
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She sens à sentative, intelligunt TORNA. a pagt greu, atimured te the news, minib etal muries thed were begimaant to flossiny sugar to the runs of Mosens.
She get a la in the State Puish Bun Hong In die war-weddi,, tv-
in Mesem, IT
translatap od 1943 that where de ket Valute Moserna
BOC! Te inte Russian. Olga gathered up the remanufa
tenaciously of her life and began to work 4 words bringing, up her 10 very young children.
Her mother, who
had come
mitted the raying
A
Coutaerously, began to make beast!!
The was the woun
she
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circle
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featured fue, kur hair drawn There
immediate rictly backwards from J allmly. intellectual and evalce porting, with her almost emotional, between 1. atrenly applataner. had wou thick-bodied woman,
the the love of a man who was bes tall, quiet Pasternak.
ginning to attract the Popu Tarity of the enuntry's young in- Refien tualS. But he was Bl attracting the attention of the flussian Government, who con nidered him to be a "Fascist,"
For many years Olga and Pas- temak were constantly Rogether. She moved to a house within walking distance of his. They worked together, talked ta gether and helped each other h their mutual struggle towards Hilerary petetaan.
No marriage
Alvido aftrek him directly. they arrested Olga instead in INS.
by SALLY
VINCENT
Wonen who were in prison with her a that time have
Cummings
London Expresa Bervice.
She worked as his lite:ary the only sort of intelligence that agent as he wrote the brillant can ever be accepted and ad- Nobel Prize novel "Dr Zhivago." mired by a min.
Small reward
She let it be known through- out Moscow that she was behind him whatever he deviled to produce.
Perhaps she was rewardid in some small way by the tribute Pasteinak paid to her in his book.
In "Dr Zhivago," the he. ine symbolises the bright spirit G the victimised Russian people.
And this was what Pasternak foamil in Diga Ivinskaya.
New charges
made a heroine of her. In the Before his death last May he For a year she was held in evenings. Olgu would read admitted, with pride, that the Lubianka it with no charge aloud the pans of the man she wonderful nerminis of the brok, Government. agame! her, while the police was suffering for, and in the the unforgettable Larissa. Was tried to produce évidence against bitter drudgery of the daytime in feef drawn directly
Olga. There was never any question her or Pasterank.
she was eager to complete every of marriage.
But she never weakened. And task she was given.
Through the Larissa, Anally she was sent to a labente e5133.
Pasternak was owried when he met Olga and he never left Boris his wife. But Olga was
Throughout the four terrible the years he was there she never
Pastebok way introduced to. mearest person to han. She in- once breko taith with her friend.
Mad dogs and Englishmen
WOMAN telephoned
Mr. Frank Pettit from North London and said she no longer dared enter her drawing-room because her poodle was waiting to bite her.
She was hysterical. A devoted, trusting dog- lover who had always imagined her poodle was her best friend.
poodle.
Mr. Pell hurried out in rounded up the need to it back to 1ompton, Middlesex, where he FIPS clinle for the Canine Defenc League.
ANALYSED
-AND THE DOGS
LOOK LIKE WINNING
A rugged, 38-year-old es thinking, like his mistress, that police dog handler, he specialises in dog psychiatry.
ROW
Everyon WOR t11 Cherry. it Azly turrest ino
PROT biler-particularly of
He diagnosed that the poodle and a
wan overfed,
postmen. over-pumpurei,
over-peltcd-that finally it hart I renched Mr Pettit by way
Kainca the upper hand in the of the High Court.
houre and deminated its owner,
Tho story of the neurotic
**W now have
it on the
Nareti Poo from North London best of terms with our staff of orded beeply after many 12," says the canine head- trials.
shriker. "Belter :081 Bls mis-
trees tilephones every night
Ifis mistress too was taken to for a progress report.
Mr Pettit blue-painted "con-
sulting room" She was analys-
"By the end of the treatmenl
ed to expose her faults with I'm sure I will have dune her
Heise anel inally put through
Tigorous training with her. pof until she could prove that the
power of good too."
ogairt held the upper hand dog is u
Says Mr Pettit: "If you think that this soit of thing can only happen in James Thurber, you are in for a shock.
A SCOTTY
How do you know if your head case? ("And same of them are atune-bonkers
mental" says Mr Pettit.)
Chewing the doors, curtains, and furallure is a bad sign. It usually denales extreme (rus- iration. The beat cure?
Less rich food, more exercise.
Or it could be a sexual problem. Dogs can suffer badly
"I get 15 to 20 calls a day from sex problems and these.
from people ice that. And usually require deeper skilled there are thousands more own- treatment 13 unravel them. Cr throughout the country
in the same predicament.
Loneliness is the dog's worst enemy. He is pack animal "Poodles, corgir, und spontets and dreads lack of companion- uto the worst. Their most ship even more than Jack' ot common fault in biting their food.
owners. After that comes biling
postthen, dustmer.miljunen, Leaving him shut up for long and children."
periods can produce deep-seated stresses and strains.
The dog is the looking-glass
the
of the handler. There 14 # it is not always the dog that Scotty In
"Observation is at fault. The owner may be Ward" of Hampton now who the jumpy, nervy type who lets lived at Paignton with an old the dog lake command. Says
reclures The dog Mr Potilt: "When I nee some lady who in a
badamis
190
conditioned
to one being bowled along on, the
ent of the lead I now at once it's the dog that rung the home
- the master?
But now a new neurosis is developing among our pets, the cause of which (though he can cure it) has so far eluded Mr Pettit.
ATTACKED
in
Families watching * darkeneri POON are being attacked by their dogs, who turn
on them inexperterly and bile their feet.
"It is extraordinarily common.
I have sat in a dozen family circles trying to find the cause," cald Mr Pettit.
1 suggested be should try switching off the TV
John Ellison -(London Express Service).
;
When Studio died, an amnesty was announced. Olga was freed
back and went straight Pasternak, her loyalty intuel.
to
She has a way with robots
WORLD OF SCIENCE by Peter Fairley
HOUSEWIFE in Hort. fordshire is now mar- shalling Britain's first team of "computer girls." Their task? To moke ony clec- tronic "brain" porform any task however complex m anywhere in the country.
She is Mrs Aldrina St Johns- ton, sim, attractive wife of a top ricetronies engineer at Eliott Brothers, the computer specialists.
"He builds them, I tell them what to do," she explains. At 30, Mrs St Johnston knows more about the so-called robot bralis than most men. She has, so t spenk a way with them.
She programmes them, And he completes in four months, what takes « mun one year,
Programming a computer is about as formidable u prospect ns fitting together a 3,000-piece jigsaw Mrs St Johnston op- proaches it with the jigsaw spirit-it can be done.
The sequence "Computers will only du what they are told," she explained. "You simply break down cach job into thousanda of little
At this confused stage in the drama at Olp's lite, it is en- possible to accept or reject the
uthenticity of
the charges mande guist her by the Russian
What is certain is that the is from suffering once more for the love
she shared with Pasternak. qually of Perhaps, lik Larissa, she has it is possible to see disappeared into the frozen instructions. You don't need to what Olga rucant to Pasternak. weeks of Northern Russia and know much about the inside of She is a strong women, but well be seen or heard of the machine-merely what it intensely feminine. Her intel- again.
can do and the size of Its ligence is a deeply intuitive une,
memory box.
~~(London Express Service).
Britain plans an
By TOM POCOCK
BRITAIN is to set up
a chain of strategic island bases encircling the world. Mr Harold Watkinson, the De- fence Minister, and the Air Staff hope by this means to enable RAF Transport and Bomber Commands to operate globally with- out relying on the po- litically threatened bases in Kenya, Aden and Singapore. Work with shortly begin cnlarging the air base Masira island, in the Arabian Sea, as a staging post for long-range Jet_transports and V-bombers. The length and surface of the
runway at present
aircraft permit no heavier than Hastings and Beverley transports to operate safely.
Three needs
011
island
ADEN
KENYA
INDIA
CHINA
GAN
INDIAN OCEAN
become
The land will now on
am alternative air base to Aden.
Masira. which Bes about 1000 miles both from Aden and the Soviet frontier, is ruled by the Sultan of Museal, who allows Britain to make full airfield. military use of the
QUEEN ELIZABETH SLEPT HERE
Christmas Island in the Pacific Is to become a mid-ocean luk in the chain of bases, The
which Irland, from
nuclear Tes have been carried cut, can already operate V-bom- hers from its airfield and will now also become a base for aerial tankers frem which the V-force can refuel in fight.
These, and other Island bases which will be converted, are based en the prototype
of
SINGAPORE
chain
AUSTRALIA
Gan, the tiny island base in the Indian Ocean, 2,000 miles from Atlan and 2,000 miles from Singapore. The runway, which is longer than the island itself. has successfully Te- placed Coylen-600 miles lo the north-as the
etrategic link with the Far East,
While the Government has no Intention of abandoning the massive bases in Kenya, Aden and Singapore until it has to. it seed the chada of "shadow bases" both fis a means of ensuring the global mobility of the Ariny's
24
'An enterprising one is our Rhamjah!"
NAWAII
CHRISTMAS ISLAND
PACIFIC OCEAN
of
These instructions become columns of neat aures, aften covering 39 foolscup sheets,
MIRS, ST. JOHNSTON "Ideal job for girls."
which tell the computer operator which buttons to press and in which sequence.
and Strategle Teserve enabling the V-force to
Mrs St Johnston also drows threaten the Soviet Union with nuclear retaliation from up a "flow" diagram which wil! the the south and cast as well show an employer how
problem will "flow" smoothly through the machine. If the
the 15 problem
Intricate, dogram may end up yard
the west.
Compared with a vast and com- plcx bare such as Singapore, the leland bases will be square. astonishingly simple; Planners
hove bren told that the Mistakes? "Usually there are islands they choose will have two or three." she said. "Two er to be suitable to meet only three do not matter, because in three requirements: a run- (L computer they are usually way, a steekpile and an glaring errors and easy to trace,
But more could cause chaos. anchorage,
I have only done it once without any."
(London Express Servle:).
London Express Servico.
The St Johnstons live in a converted pub at Brickendon. Home in order, she begins an cight-hour day of programming. A rate demand for Norwich, Britain's first payroll-by- computer, a secret Government contract, a railway wages consus, stock control and automatic control of atomic reactors-"orders" for the solu- tion of all these probema by computer huve come from Mrs St Johnston's pen,
'I adore 1, she added. "I get a real thrilf out of seeing the machine moving and the answers coming out. But I would like to see mare answert coming out. The men
in this business tend to do too much ex- perimenting for the sake of ex- perimenting--they don't work the machines hard enough."
Speed essential
The essence of a computer is speed. Yet even Mr St John- ston needs two to four months to complete d' programTIFIC. Ohr
of the reasons for her team of girls is to cut this further. Why Airls?
"It seems an ideal job for the feminine sex," she explained. "It calls for great patletice, neatness and attention to detÁLI, It is quite enty to pass on the technique to a person with those quallles,"
Mrn St Johnston has trained one 17-year-old girl to pro. gramine a computer after only a fortnight. That murely displa the iden that there is anything very diMcult about it," she added. To me, that ly the understatement of 1041. then I am a mere man
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