As a lifelong apologist for Soviet Russia, Nebraska-born Journalist Anna Louise Strong, 69. has not always found the party line easy to follow. On one stay in Russia, where she lived for years, she tried to join the Russian Communist Party, was turned down as a "sentimental bourgeois." The Russians, however, were tolerant enough to let her start the first English-language Soviet newspaper, the Moscow News. Then, in 1949, without explanation or warning, she was arrested in Moscow and charged with being "incriminated in espionage and subversive activities in the Soviet Union." Bewildered...
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