6/CHRONICLESnThe Soviet Union is already playingnhost to large numbers of Americans. Itnis all part of a general agreementnsigned in November 1985 in Genevanby U.S. Secretary of State GeorgenShultz and Soviet Foreign MinisternEduard Schevardnadze. The previousnUS/USSR cultural exchange programnwas brought to a sudden halt by PresidentnCarter in December of 1979 withnthe Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.nWhat prompts the U.S. decision tonresume these exchanges? It is, mostnprobably, the sentiment and politics ofnpeace. Summit conferences demandnat least some evidence of progressn—even in the soft areas of educationnand culture. The apparently harmlessnbasis for these exchanges are “equality,nmutual benefit, and reciprocity,” principlesnwhich seem fair until they arenseen in action.nItem: The American Bar Associationnsigned an exchange agreementnwith the Union of Soviet Lawyers.nSamuil Zivs, vice president of thenti-Semiticnice presiistnCom-nShcharipionage,n.’ signingnBA has,n3 a legaln)fessionalnd to anti-n3ciety ofnexchangenof Sovietnbe a moren”equal” exchange if the public relationsnofficer of various governmentnagencies, including the USIA, had annexchange with the USJ. Soviet journalistsnare paid agents of the Sovietnstate and, most decidedly, are notn”watchdogs.” Of course, Americannjournalists will not be allowed to havenprivate meetings with anyone whonholds views contrary to the CommunistnPartv of the Soviet Union. In othernCULTURAL REVOLUTIONSnwords, American journalists will havento compromise their professional standardsnfor a guided tour. Moscow bureaunchiefs have a hard enough timenpracticing journalism — much lessneditors on a two-week tour.nScientists, too, have problems. ThenNational Academy of Science in 1980ncut their relations with the SovietnAcademy of Sciences when AndreinSakharov, perhaps the greatest livingnSoviet physicist, was exiled to Gorkynfor daring to disagree with the officialnviews of the state. Scientists need to benable to determine which of their peersnthey can meet with. Sakharov is onlynone case, but there are many others.nIn the performing arts? MstislavnRostopovich, Rudolf Nureyev, MikhailnBaryshnikov, and others have,nwith their feet, voted against the Sovietnregime. The artists are so heavily controllednby political masters that manynleave their native culture to practicentheir arts in a foreign one. Art in thenSoviet Union is primarily a propagandanasset to be exploited by the state fornpolitical purposes. Pianist and exilenVladimir Horowitz recently had anmost successful trip to the SovietnUnion because he knew the lay of thenland and set the necessary terms andnconditions.nUnder what conditions should exchangesntake place? Professionalngroups should never compromise theirnprofessional standards. They should benacutely aware of whether their itinerariesnare set by themselves or by thenSoviet state. Who and what they seenand the conditions under which visitsntake place should be a private andnprofessional matter. Under what rationalenshould a scientist be forcednunknowingly to meet with a stooge ofnthe KGB who masquerades as a worldclassnscientist? What is the defense ofnjournalists being forced to yet anothernWorld War II cemetery to understandnSoviet suffering? These same journalistsnare not allowed to speak with thosenwho have written against the GULAGnnn— a living institution which killednmore Soviet citizens than all of WorldnWar II.nAmericans who satisfy themselvesnon the serious ethical questions ofnexchange would do well to recall thenpart played by Henry Wallace andnOwen Lattimore. Mr. Wallace, thennVice President of the United States,nand Professor Lattimore of the Officenof War Information, visited in 1944nthe gold mines of Kolyma in Siberia.nWallace later wrote:nIn North Siberia today,nRussians have developed urbannlife comparable in general tonthat of our own NorthwesternnStates and Alaska.nSince he wrote those words, RobertnConquest, Eugenia Ginzburg, andnothers have documented the untoldnsuffering going on in Kolyma and thenelaborate preparations for Wallace’snvisit. Estimates vary, but at the time ofnWallace’s visit, the Soviets were wellnon their way to a Kolyma death toll ofnfive to seven million. Putting the bestnface on the matter, Wallace and Lattimorenwere dupes, useful idiots. Butnafter more than half a century ofnfalling for Potemkin villages, wordsnlike “dupe” seem inappropriate for thenjournalists and intellectuals who allownthemselves to be used.n—Michael Y. WardernWomen’s art—the saga continues.nFirst feminists pressured Anthony Jansonnto revise his father’s classic Historynof Art so that it included a number ofnobscure painters and sculptors forgottennby everyone outside the Women’snStudies movement. Now “women”nwill have their own art museum in thennation’s capital. Due to open nextnApril, the National Museum ofnWomen in the Arts will be housed in anformer Masonic temple, just twonblocks from the White House. Thenprirhary organizer of the new museumn