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From all indications, his trial in Talaya, near Magadan, 4,000 miles from Moscow on the Asian coast and well out of bounds of foreign newsmen, was little more than a judicial pretense. His wife, who Tass reported had been allowed to attend his trial, was in fact barred from the courtroom. She saw her husband only as he was hustled to and from court in police cars. As for the charge of compiling "fabrications," that apparently consisted of Amalrik's notes on his experience in prison...
Party's Call. Russia's main mines are located near a city named Bodaybo in central Siberia, at Magadan on Siberia's east coast, and on the Chukotskiy Peninsula on the Bering Strait. Last month came reports from Russia of new strikes in Kazakhstan and Transcaucasia that promise to be richer than the combined output of the Siberian mines. The Soviets keep as closely guarded secrets the amount of their gold output and reserves, but estimates by gold experts in London and Paris place Russia's current output at $500 million to $1 billion a year...
...survivors of Nazi camps, to decide whether the Russians run a similar system. Said Prosecutor David Rousset, a French writer and former Nazi prisoner: "For the first time, the men who lived at Auschwitz and Buchenwald are going to hear men who lived through Kolyma and Magadan...
Vasili Kivlenko, who spent part of his five years at Magadan "transit" camp. He recalled: "All those physically weak were doomed; they soon fell sick and never recovered . . . Scurvy was widespread and the tents were particularly foul-smelling from scurvy and frost wounds-sweet from rotting flesh...