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...spectacle that unfolded last week on the steps of a courthouse on Mos cow's Chernyshevsky Street is by now a familiar one in Russia. A crowd of friends and supporters of the accused had come, laden with bouquets of red tu lips and yellow daffodils. Forbidden to attend the closed trial, they huddled in the freezing cold, waiting for a chance to express their sympathy with the lat est victim of the government's crack down on dissenters. This time the pris oner was a pretty 30-year-old blonde, Irina Belogorodskaya, whose crime consisted of having...
Budgeted Misfortunes. He found such a spirit harder and harder to main tain as the years went by. At 30, he was old-looking and exhausted. Thinking that marriage would settle him down, as well as pay his debts, he wed a Mos cow beauty 13 years his junior. "My hun dred and thirteenth love," he called her - a very modest estimate. Ironically, Pushkin's wife became a favorite at the Czar's court, and her flagrant flirtations threw him into fits of jealousy. Finally he challenged the boldest of her courtiers, the French-born Baron Georges...
...party circles as "the Hag" because of her terrible temper. At the same time, the party, which is led by Secretary General Waldeck Rochet, who in recent years has become a moderate, both reaffirmed its censure of Soviet action in Czechoslovakia and asserted its new-found critical attitude toward Mos cow. Wrote L'Humanite, the French Communist newspaper: "No party is perfect and no party can avoid making mistakes in method and analysis...
That was the end of the first Mos cow demonstration by a small organization called War Resisters' International, founded in The Netherlands after World War I and now headquartered in London. W.R.I., which claims branches in 40 nations, supports nonviolence and works closely with the Quakers. A major point in its program is "to seek and maintain contact with war resisters in countries where it is dangerous to oppose government policy...
...gratifying to both sides in the Sentinel debate. The system's opponents could claim credit for underscoring U.S. reluctance to pay for redundant weaponry. Its proponents could congratulate themselves for prompting Gromyko's move. Together, they proved that the shortest distance in rocket diplomacy between Washington and Mos, cow is often a circular line...