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...kept at it. "My answers might seem naive to you professional gentlemen here," he said, to the laughter of the courtroom, "but I had no idea how intelligence operated. I now know." Even before the prosecutor finished his summation at the end of the trial, the government newspaper Izvestia appeared in the courtroom reporting his demand for punishment: a death sentence for Penkovsky and ten years in jail for Wynne. The military tribunal retired to confer, then passed judgment. Penkovsky's mouth dropped open in shock when the verdict was announced. He would be shot; Wynne would do eight...
...words from the Red world were equally warm. Moscow's Izvestia, whose Editor Aleksei Adzhubei visited Pope John in March, made it clear that the encyclical met with favor in the Kremlin. Without waiting for guidance from Moscow, leaders of Communist parties in Italy, Belgium and France hailed the peace-loving tone of Pacem in Terris; Paris' L'Humanité called it a major step toward unity of action for peace, and Poland's Zycie Warszawy heralded it as an encyclical of "peaceful coexistence." These appraisals shrugged off the letter's strong rejection of totalitarianism...
Mutter in Minsk. Last week the Soviet press fumed that Evtushenko and other young writers should not be allowed to travel abroad until they "mature politically." When a West German girl was detained at the Soviet border on charges of smuggling caviar, Izvestia brought Evtushenko into it by charging that she had met Evtushenko in Germany and from him had learned all about "fashionable Moscow youth." In Minsk, where Dmitry Shostakovich's new 13th Symphony was performed for the first time outside Moscow, a critic castigated the composer for basing part of his score on Evtushenko's famed...
With all the hoopla about American products coming out of Moscow last week, one might have thought Madison Avenue had been moved to Gorky Street. First came endorsement of blue jeans, a commodity the Kremlin had always disdained as a capitalist fad worn only by parasites. Nonsense, declared Izvestia, "Texas trousers" are "very useful," adding reassuringly that "the origin of blue jeans is not with Hollywood movie stars, but with real cowboys, who don't take part in wild chases and romantic gunplay, but in honest and hard work...
Catching the spirit, Izvestia made one final suggestion: Russians should eat more popcorn-called "air corn" by the Soviets. "The Americans love it. Children and adults enjoy it. They sell small packages in theaters, railroad stations and airports." Soviet families would love it also, said the newspaper, which helpfully gave detailed instructions on how to grow hybrid corn for popping...