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...Little Help. Tiomkin has now finished his most ambitious project yet-a $2,000,000 biography of Tchaikovsky filmed mostly in Moscow and Leningrad with top Russian music, dance and cinema talent, all paid for by the Soviet government. Tiomkin is the movie's executive producer. Fittingly, too, for no one appreciates-or has borrowed from-Tchaikovsky more. "I am adapting so many years Tchaikovsky in my pictures," he explains modestly, "I think it is time to do something...
...become a standard feature of protest in the Soviet Union. The young demonstrator, whose leaflets demanded the release of several imprisoned Soviet dissenters, was not a Russian but a touring Belgian student from the University of Ghent. Later in the week, a young Norwegian student was arrested in Leningrad for passing out leaflets. Six days earlier, two young Italian students, Teresa Marinuzzi, 22, and Valtenio Tacchi, 23, handcuffed themselves to a railing in Moscow's downtown TSUM department store and tossed similar leaflets at astonished shoppers. The episode was almost identical with a protest staged last October...
...countries. But their chief interest is in protesting violations of civil liberties. The Belgian student represented an organization called the Flemish Action Committee for Eastern Europe. Scandinavia's SMOG (a Russian acronym for Courage, Youth, Sincerity and Genius) sponsored October's GUM demonstration and the one in Leningrad last week. Both groups, and several others, are in touch with Rome's Movimento Europa Civilta, whose Eagle Scout approach to political regeneration includes weekend camping trips and karate practice in the mountains. It was Europa Civilta that sponsored the TSUM caper in Moscow...
...investigator, Nikolai Danilov, left his work on the island of Sakhalin and took a job as a legal-aid consultant in a Leningrad law office. He was arrested and confined in a special insane asylum for political offenders, where he is being "treated" with insulin shock...
...Leningrad last December, three intellectuals were tried and sentenced to hard labor for "producing, harboring and circulating works of an anti-Soviet nature." These included Milovan Djilas' The New Class and Barry Goldwater's Why Not Victory? and The Conscience of a Conservative...