Word: labor
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Public outcry is as uncommon in Russia as borsch without sour cream, but something very much like it has been triggered by last month's sentencing of four young intellectuals to terms in labor camps. Soviet writers, scientists and university teachers, who once quaked in fear of the Kremlin's displeasure, have drawn up petitions, loudly condemned the sentences and fired off a spate of letters not only to 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...
Soviet writers and intellectuals have been further upset by the long-rumored ill treatment of writers in the Ukraine, where the party does things much more quietly. In a manuscript that reached the Western press last week, Ukrainian Television Newsman Vyacheslav Chornovil, who is now in a Soviet labor camp, detailed the repressive methods of the Ukrainian secret police, who have hustled at least 15 top intellectuals off to labor camps. The police invaded their homes without search warrants, confiscated their manuscripts, and, after endless interrogations about supposed anti-Soviet writings, had them convicted at secret trials...
...probable explanation for the omission is that there was no film available of those battles, and such was the deficiency of both NET documentaries. The producers were so smitten with their own camerawork in the fields and labor camps that they did not provide perspective on the problem-whether its cause lies in the economics of the industry, lack of unionization, inadequacy of the laws or failure to enforce them, or perhaps a combination of these factors. As a result, the exposes were neither as searing or as illuminating as Edward R. Murrow's 1960 CBS documentary on migrant...
...culmination of 20,000 hours of labor over ten years. And to Peggy Fleming, 19, a raven-haired Colorado College coed, the effort was all worthwhile when she stepped onto the winner's podium at Grenoble last week and heard played The Star-Spangled Banner for the first and perhaps only time in the 1968 Winter Olympics. "This feeling," said Figure Skater Fleming, "can never be shared-even by the richest people...
Arriving in Keene this afternoon, McCarthy visited two insurance companies and one plant. A planned tour of another manufacturing company was cut short because of what the management called "labor difficulties." The senator departed for New York this evening...