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— TORONTO (CP) — . Even now, after all the sensational |

an headlines, the trial and the in-depth interviews, the question
. -Bemaing: “Why” ‘did Prof. ‘Hugh’. _Hambieton of Laval -
: University become, andremain, aspy for the Soviet Union? _-

- John. Barton, who-has’ Just published KGB Today, The

oe Hidden Hand, is at a loss for a aatisfactory explanation: And:

‘he says he doubts that even Hambleton, serving. a 10-year

_" entence’fn a British prison; has the answer,

_” Certainly-he didn’t do it.for ‘the money, Although his:
Soviet handlers pushed money and other rewards on him,

a Hambleton only: ever accepted $5,000, near the end of-his

‘career, which’ he gave to a dying girl-frieid, He calculated *
that after 2 years he. had earned ; about $19 a month as a
Spy, ‘not enough to caver ‘expenses,.

~ And he-didn't do it for ideological reasons: In. a ‘trip te to”
Moscow fot training he found a “suffocating monotony and
.drearinéss that crushed the very soul,” Barron writes, and
vowed never to return,

The Soviets were shocked by his lack of knowleige and

understanding of Marxisin,

Even when he had extracted himself, after lying that he-
hadlost hig vital NATO job in Paris, he then returned like a
moth to the flainé and was again entrapped.

Barron arned mucti of Hambleton through Rudolt

Hermann, wh6 was 35 exposed after 17 uke aa a 5 ng agent *

in North. America, : and: he. subsequently, interviewed.
‘Hambleton for five, days’ in ‘Quebec... - ‘

~The chapter on the economics ‘professdt wa. cindensed

; and published . last - :April in’ Reader’s Digest, ‘of. “which”

Barron is a:senfor editor, and although ‘there are iio great, :

"new revelations, Barron's: writing ability, and -talent for.
: interviewing and: -oaged research shake, for: sripping
reading. etek af
” “With an ingenius use of: quotes and iniaute personal detail

“he pute meat on his subjects, He traces Hambleton’s early -_
‘Ife with a father-who in the.1990s' was: the first. Canadian =

: Preas correspondent stationed in Europe, anda vivaciails-
"Irish mother whose scintillating conversation made her. a.
“regular in. the grand salons of Parls.". ~

She had a consuming interest in Russia, Barron’ says;: and

she and her.son continued to associate with Russians after

~ thelr, ‘return. to” Hambleton's native ‘Oltawa. | At-:the”
‘ suggestion of a Soviet agent he got a job in NATO, rejecting.
6 full scholarship i at the London School of Ecenomies, and:

“hi ‘spying career ‘took off.

"simply because his sister had visited’ ‘Cuba, ‘they were.
" outraged that he had heen denied his civil rights and sald

they would p pay fos ihe best lawyer bi ii Paris: to. a tls case.

Hambleton declined and was free, of them, but, later’ ;
: returned to the fold. -

- It’s. Barron's feeling, he: “said in’ ‘an interview, that .
- Hambleton simplywais mesmerized by; “a strange irtatlon, _

"With ‘danger, the call of the secret world.” .-”

He was introduced to intrigue xerving in intelligence: with.
: the-Free French in Algiers-during the Second: World War,

. and. then.with the: ‘Americans interrogating German wan
“eriminals,’ °°

' “He told me: ‘Aiterwards, Imissed it. The world seemed

tame.
‘There also was. the element of ego, Barron said. “He ‘aid

to me, ‘After all, how many economists ean talk directly to
t the. Soviet leadership."

Hambleton's story forms-one big, important chapter i in”
- the book that also tells incredible stories pf other KGB

operatives, including Stanislav-Levchenks wha managed to
enlist 4 most conservative Japanese journalist working for
“a right-wing Tokyo newspaper. ‘He subsequently. became
’ disenchanted. with the Soviet system and sought asylum in

‘the U.S. His wife and child, left behind, suffered incredible
. hardship.

-. And there is the: tantalizing yarn of the brilliant Rudot

~ Gilliland. dreams. of success with. genie

Book reviews F ions

Hermans, who. was trained from adolescence tobe: a Soviet: \ ‘ —

agent and ran a seriesof increasingly- successful businesses -

in Canada and the U.S, before he was. caught ‘and agreed to...
“eo-operate, with U.S. intelligence.forces, °

+ ut

humane, sympathetic.

KGB Today, The Hidden ° Hand, by ‘John Barron, ;
. published by Reader's Digest Press, 489 pages, $22.05 -

“The book 1 a real page-turner, but It ig marred somewhat -

by Barron’s prejiidice, which. shows-repeatedly. He never ~ ig

‘ Mnisses a chance, rio matter how inconsequential to the storys:
“he is telling, to’ illustrate the-horrors and drabness of a.
Soviet saciety beset ‘with terror, alcoholism, deprivation - “
and: corruption, By. contrast U.S.’ Central Intelligence

- Agency authorities,- for instance, are always reasonable,

‘08 ANGELES (AP) —
Richard’ Gilliland hopes

” there's something prophetic

about the title of his new .

. ABC series, Just Our. Luck.
He -hasn't-had much luck

with previous TV series.

Just Our Luck, a half-hour

comedy in which-he plays a

- television. weatherman who,

.-finds himself stuck with a

Benie he doesn't” “yeally

| it looked as if two decades of “fascism were.

liya Gerol’s |
HOT SPOTS.

Sterling News Servive
Feature

Fascism’s microbes.
are very much alive

_ There are some anniversaries people
avoid. celebrating. One of these ‘anniver-
; aries comes around. now:°100 years since
the birth of Benito Mussolini, the founder of -
;fasclam, . a
Jn 1945, dur ‘the happy.daj, Of i

tory,..

. just an unfortunate’ page of history which —
was over forever. It would appear, ©
however, that, in spite of Mussolini hanging -
by his: heels and Hitler having had his-last
meal laced. with cyanide, fascism — the .
quintessence of totalitarianism and
autocracy — did not vanish.

‘Before mentioning Augusto ‘Pinochet :of:
Chile and Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
of Spain, it would be useful to remember the
route Mussolini took to fascism.

_ An active member of the newly-born
Italian Communist Party In 1919, the editor ©
of Avanti, “the newspaper. of the Italian’
Socialist Party at the beginning of the 1920s,
Mussolini developed the ideology of fascism ,
‘as the logical contiriuation of the teaching of
Marxism. The ‘denial of freedom. and
democracy as well as the principle of |
domination by the state over the individual
were the Marxist roots of fascism. To these ©.
he added a vigorousnationalism. .’

' The extent of Mussolini's personal inven-
tiveness was relatively modest — a poor —
populist theory of the corporate state where -

- the supervision of the great Duce. ;

_ Today, 38 years after fascism was crush-
ed and 55 million people lost their lives dur-
ing the most terrible war in history, three-

‘quarters of the world’s population live
under totalitarian regimes.

‘Democracy i5 gradually becoming an
island in the ocean of right- and left-wing
dictatorships. The microbes of racism and
arrogant nationalism so successfully in-

‘troduced by Mussolini and Hitler are very.
much alive and do their best to determine
the course of international policy and inter-

_nal oppression.

History repeats itself in the most tragic
way. We still tolerate the forces of aggres-
sion and totalitarianism trying to find com-

mon language with one another. We have
justification — nuclear weapons. We still
believe that appeasement | is the best way to
peace.

Inside our own countries, proud of our —
democracy, we calmly witness growing
anti-semitism under cover of pure Christian
values preached by such parties’ as the
federal Social Credit Party or under the
cover of anti-Zionism, 80. vigorously ex-
pounded by all kinds of Keegstras. It ts pro-
bably the very time to realize that neither
freedom of speech nor the desire to avoid

- world troubles: is a justifiable reason for

aggresalon..
If we do not tolerate them, if we are

"strong enough to repulse them, there will be
no need to recall the 200th reat of
Benito Mussollil’s birt.

. Operation
' adapted’ from the! -movie-.:
: about a pink submarine
“with @. boatload of. nurses:

_ all classes of society live in harmony under |

‘tolerating the forces of totalitarianism and. | |

want, will be his fifth show.

Tn bis first, he was called “
in as a seplacement to play.
_ Rock Hudson's: bidekick in

the - waning — days of
McMillan and Wife, By then

" Susan Saint James. had left

and the title had been
shortened to McMillan. . .

_ Jn. 1077 he played in
Petticoat,

He and: most. of: ‘the cast :

were replaced at the: end of

the first season. At the end
of the. second’ year it sank :

without, atrace,
Then he wes in Little

Womei,.: “which lasted . one;

month. He ‘lso-had a brief:

~-role on The. Waltons:

. “After Little Women I

; didn't want te do another
‘series: for. a while," BAYS
. Gilliland. :

"I'd. -had two
disappointnieaits. This yea,

Prisoners poetic

"WINNIPEG (CP) —To:
most people, poetry” and

-prisons would appear to be.

an impossible mixture, like

_fire andice. But. not, to Kate o
Bitney. oo
Bitney, a “Winnipeg:
- writer, . went behind the’
walla of the’ Maniteba~

. Correctional Centre for:
oy vee i in. ee S “

yielded ° an "nexbéeted
‘harvest of poems that
Wividly express the feelings
‘of women fighting for their

Identities. -
“The results show that’
' poetry, often considered a.

hothouse plant dependent on
‘a cultivated environment, .

“can -also grow on. - stoner’,
. ground: ~ :

’ “T didn’t know what. to”

:,expect," “ gnid Bitney,. whose *
‘own talents asa poet and |
“teacher. j
assignment | for the creative
-- writing “program, an ex-/,
periment backed by the..had little formal education, _-

won her- the

Manitotia Arts Council,

_ Bitney.. found that: “the. om
eight students, who ranged
in age from: 18 to- 35,showed 7

_ keen enthusiasm for an art

“usually done by free ‘spirits.

“A good. number of the -

women had. already ‘been

writing,” said Bitney, who -
urged the prisoners to put
thelr personal feelings ‘into:
Verse.

"Let's face it, everyone’ 8

‘a closet poet.” ~
-- Bitney travelled twice a,
-week to the provincial Jail,

‘Bitney's:

85 kilometres ‘west. of here;
for three-hour-sessions with
* the. women: behind bars.:

‘The poetry, a defiance of

the despair that hangs over
prison cells, emerged with:

. The wonien listened: toa’

record of eerie modern jazz’.
‘by flute ‘player. Paul Horn~
a tried.to. write down thgy
“images it suggested. &
. The iree- ‘lowing jazz, og
haunting blend of mostly: *.
‘European. instrumentation.

with-the sounds and rhyth-
ms of India, did the trick.’.

“The single most ‘im-* .

- portant: ingredient was the.
- musie,’”. sald Bitney, -who

also used fairy. tales’ and F
myths, especially those with _
” women in’ heroi¢ roles; to -

help’. “ set imaginations:
soaring.”
“‘Bitney sometimes ”
saggested — ‘topics and:
‘generally... "coaxed, - ‘the:

prisoners, most, of whom

. to let-their- minds fly.
Some of the- students

confessed their grammar
was ‘shaky, but Bitney told |
them to go ahead and not to |
worry’.
cotnposition: | oy

about . _ rides of.

Bitney is looking forward

to. ‘the — fall, when the.
program, ‘initiated “by the.
John Howard Soctety" oft .

See
. “Prisoners” »

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“TLUMMERLODCE 7!

I tested: for three pilots. One
of them was Just Our Luck

and I was also under option.
”. for another series.

“You have to get in your
mind that when, you do’ a:

_ pilot it’s ‘not going- to’ make
~ it, I don't’ mean to be |
negative, There are. so

many factors. You have to

know going ip it's a, erap. ss

shoot,”

_ Gilliland, who also has a.
rolé in-the movie Airplane _

IE, came in to read for Just,
Our Luck at the last minute.
John Astin, his’ former 0+
star on Operation Petticoat

was directing -‘the pilot for ;
. Lorimar Productions. :.

‘Gilliland, ‘a. ‘handsome.
young Texan. with a wide
grin, is just getting over a

bug he picked ‘up doing. ie

guest.. appearance:

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There isa: compensation,

-however, In his fantasy he’s, |.

| Maroonedon a desextisland |.
with. Shannon’ Tweed and -
; Phyllis: Davis. fighting aver
him,

“Gilliland ‘cd-stars with T. ,
~ K. Carter in Just. Our Lack,
- Heplaysmild-mannered TV
weatherman Keith Barrow, .
whose life is suddenly

disrupted ‘by the ap

pearance of a ‘hip, high-
‘ living. genie named: Shabu.’
»-, Although he wants to get rid

of Shabu, the genie'saves his

job at the television station.
by livening up his lacklustre -

weather report.

“To think. the — two”
‘characters will have a dual
. dependency,” he says. “In

the future Kelth will become
more magical and Shabu

will beeome- more mortal.
Figuratively, Shabu is the

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