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...trial. Far from dealing too sternly with the writers, the pro-government Literaturnaya Gazeta said last week, the courts dealt too lightly with them. Its solution: deport the dissident writers. "Instead of feeding such people at public expense in our prisons or corrective labor camps," wrote Editor Aleksandr Chakovsky, "it would be better to let them be supported by the taxpayers of the U.S., Britain or West Germany...
...Russia's newspapers but to the Soviet Supreme Court, the Politburo and several other government agencies. In an unusually bold campaign, they have accused the Russian press and government of deceiving the people about the facts of the case and demanded a new trial for Yuri Galanskov, 29, Aleksandr Ginzburg, 31, Aleksei Dobrovolsky, 29, and Vera Lashkova, 21, who were all convicted of anti-Soviet agitation...
Broken Promise. Soviet writers also had another cause for rage. Last week, at the last possible moment, the Kremlin vetoed the printing of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's long-suppressed novel Cancer Ward. The literary community has long regarded the Kremlin's promise to publish the novel in the December issue of the journal Novy Mir as a test of the regime's avowed good intentions. But Solzhenitsyn, author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, last summer denounced censorship in a widely circulated letter and recently was attacked by the editor of Pravda as a "psychologically...
...Kremlin also moved to stanch the flow abroad of increasingly defiant statements from the "underground" set of young intellectuals. Officials of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's press section telephoned Western correspondents to warn them against attending a news conference planned by the mother of Aleksandr Ginzburg and the wife of Yuri Galanskov, two of the four sentenced intellectuals. Both men were sent to labor camps after the trial, and the two women had invited the newsmen to hear details of what had gone on inside the courtroom...
...four-Aleksandr Ginzburg, 31, Yuri Galanskov, 29, Aleksei Dobrovolsky, 29, and Vera Lashkova, 21-were accused of editing and printing manuscripts critical of Communist life with the aid of an emigre organization devoted to the overthrow of the Soviet government. They are part of a growing underground of talented young people who, far from aspiring to join the official Soviet Writers Union, write for one another or for export, publish in typewritten secret journals, and believe that they cannot be creative without at times being critical of the government. Arrested last January, they were in jail for a year before...