Word: ginzburgs
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...also reflect a concern for other "human costs" as well, human costs represented by, for example, the incarceration of millions of persons in penal labor camps in the USSR under the five year plans, and by similar experiences in other communist countries; human costs about which former inmates (Solzhenitsen, Ginzburg, Lobl) have told us vividly enough, if we only wish to know of them: human costs, too, such as those evidenced by the continued harsh suppression of free speech and press in the USSR over a half century after the Revolution and in other communist countries almost without exception...
...attacks last week on the liberal maverick who has sat on the high bench for 30 of his 70 years. Fannin noted solemnly that Douglas had written an article on folk singing for Avant Garde magazine after the Supreme Court upheld an obscenity conviction against its publisher, Ralph Ginzburg. Douglas, who collected only $350 for the piece, was one of four dissenters to the decision. Declared Thurmond: "Justice Douglas is the next one who must...
...from Soviet Writer Yuli Daniel, who is serving the fourth year of a five-year sentence at hard labor for "slandering the Soviet state" in his short stories that were published abroad. Daniel is in a labor camp at Potma in the Volga basin, along with Fellow Writer Aleksandr Ginzburg, whose crime was compiling a record of the February 1966 trial of Daniel and Writer Andrei Sinyavsky (who is serving his seven-year sentence in another part of the same camp, also for "slandering the state...
...persecutions of camp life have not quenched the spirit of Daniel and Ginzburg. Now, along with four other prisoners, they have written an open letter to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, urging "corrective legislation" to change the regulations in camps like Potma, where, according to official designation, "especially dangerous political prisoners" are held. Last week their letter was being circulated widely in Moscow...
...next Moscow trial, four young people, including Intellectual Alexander Ginzburg, were charged with circulating underground publications. "I love my country," Ginzburg said, "and I do not wish to see its reputation damaged by the latest uncontrolled activities of the KGB." During the five-day trial, sympathizers gathered outside the courtroom. A letter to "world public opinion" condemning the "witch trials" as "a wild mockery of justice no better than the purge trials of the 1930s" was circulated by Mrs. Yuli Daniel and Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin's Foreign Minister and one of the most daring of the dissidents. Shivering...