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...plus five years of exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." On television last June, the widely revered Father Dmitri Dudko confessed to having slandered the Soviet system. The priest reportedly yielded to threats that all his parishioners would be arrested if he did not recant. Significantly, denunciations of Fa ther Yakunin in the Soviet press at the time of his trial prompted 250 people from all over the U.S.S.R. to apply for membership in his committee to defend the country's believers...
...sides were digging in stubbornly. Top-level negotiations were suspended after the workers said they would not go back to the conference table until the government produced firm proposals for free trade unions. To wrangle over other issues before then, they insisted, would be useless. Nevertheless, behind the two façades of public bluster, closed-door talks continued between teams of technical and legal experts...
...prosperous collective silk-spinning plant near by. The peasants have radios, watches, bicycles, money in the bank, food on the table. Some of them treasure framed red certificates, whose bold black characters commend them for having achieved "wealth through diligent labor." Clearly, the Jin Ma commune was no Potemkin fa...
...public view. Four large portraits of Mao have vanished from the Great Hall of the People, where the Communist Party is preparing to hold the National People's Congress. At the same time, workmen are preparing to strip one more huge picture of the late Chairman from the façade of another landmark, the Museum of Chinese and Party History...
...business meeting and the current price of a gallon of gas. Southfork is a ranch out of time, and the Ewing Oil headquarters is a castle in the air-almost literally. The stock shot of the office tower shows a fleecy cloud reflected on the building's façade with the surreal clarity of a painting by Magritte. Dallas realty; Dallas fantasy. The plot is a Rube Goldberg machine of the seven deadly sins, but performed and acted absolutely straight. This gives the viewer options. He can live and die with the Ewings; he can see the show...