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Shcharansky was not so much embarrassed as furious at having been duped: By playing on his goodwill, he says, his visitors had used him to score a public rela- tions point — used him in the way he is warning Western leaders that Gorbachev is using them. In a paid advertisement which appeared in the English-language Jerusalem Post the following day, Shcharansky left little to the imagination when he fired a broadside in unequivocal lan- guage against the PLO — a "criminal terror organiza- tion," a • "pestilence that threatens all civilized people," and "cut-throats" were some of the epithets he employed. However, the incident served to underscore his acute vulnerability as a "symbol," sharpening his awareness that every step he takes and every utterance he makes is subjected to the most intense public examina- tion. "I cannot permit myself to do what other people do hun- dreds of times a day," he says. Not because of the damage an uncalculated ac- tion could cause him person- ally — "I'm not trying to make a political career" — but because of the harm it could do to those things he has come to represent: Israel and the cause of Soviet Jewry. After such an encounter, does Shcharansky have fears for his personal safety? "If you start thinking about such things, you must stop think- ing about a normal life," he replies matter-of-factly. Whatever Shcharansky does or does not do, though, he is bound to lose, at least in some eyes. Indeed, some of his most bitter critics come from among the ranks of Soviet Jews who do not criticize him for what he stands for, but rather for who he is. While the overwhelming majority admire his strength and courage — he personally helped many to reach Isarel — there is a hardcore which resents him simply because he is Anatoly Shcharansky. Many Jews who left the Soviet Union suffered depri- vations and hardships on the way to Israel, they charge. Why should one man receive all the glory, all the honor? Shcharansky acknowledges the sentiments: "On the day after I arrived there was a report in a Russian-language publication that I had been given a free apartment by the government — and, 'Look,' they said, 'there is the Minis- ter of Absorption giving him the keys.' "Well, I never got a free apartment, but nevertheless, they had letters about why I got an apartment and others didn't ... They had a long discussion about a question that existed only in their im- agination. "I also hear from some people that I am getting $3,000 a month from the Jewish Agency — there are different figures, different rumors — and that I got $100,000 from Reagan. "The fact is simply that I never got any of this, but I do have some money because I was the only one who was privileged to sign a good con- tract with a publisher — and I am also the only one who is spending a lot of money on Soviet Jewry." As for those who begrudge him his fame and fortune: "It is simply a matter of envy," he says. Are there aspects of Israel that have proved to be a dis- appointment to the man who came within a whisker of los- ing his life in the struggle to reach its shores?. "Lack of tolerance," he says im- mediately. "When I was a young boy I heard some anti-Semitic anecdotes about how Jews like to talk, not to listen to one another. Unfortunately, we find some of this in our society. "Politicians, journalists — they are in a hurry to com- ment on events, to speak very clearly, but not to listen to one another, not to under- stand the arguments of the other side." Looking at the national unity coalition of the Likud and Labour parties, he says, is not always to witness an exercise in "constructive col- laboration." "Sometimes it seems like negotiations between two sides in a war. We have all the democratic institutions and Israel is a frank and open 'society from that point of view. But it is not enough to speak frankly. There must also be real dialogue. "And in a society that is as complicated as Israeli society, the-dialogue must be very in- tense. As it is, I think there is a lack of dialogue in all di- rections." The Shcharansky show is still packing them in, and may continue to do so for some time yet. But what does a symbol do when attention starts to wane? More pre- cisely, what does Anatoly Shcharansky, now 38, plan to do with the rest of his life? "I don't have an answer yet. I might try to go back to my profession — programm- ing computers with artificial intelligence," he says without conviction. "The problem is that the whole science is just 25 years old and I have been away from it for almost 15 years. "I think I can perhaps do some modest research, but if I can find something more in- teresting and if I think I can be useful, I will do something different. Of Psalms And Observance Smehow Natan Shcharansky managed to keep a small book of Psalms in Hebrew with him during his imprison- ment. Asked which were his favorites, he cited Psalm 27, which begins: "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" The passage he noted re- citing repeatedly was verse 10: "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up." He also found comfort in the best known of the 150 Psalms, the 23rd, which states: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." When an Israeli reporter in Washington told Shcharansky she was glad to see he was not wearing a kippah, congratulating him for resisting pressures from the Orthodox to wear one, he asserted that it is a symptom of the level of religious prejudice in Is- rael to assume that the observant Jews are trying to pressure him to become more observant. He said that this was not the case and that when a Lubavitch representative at Kennedy Airport placed a kippah on Shcharansky's head, an Orthodox friend removed it and told the former refusenik: "You are a free man now. Don't let anyone force you to do something you don't want to do."