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Those arrested included Petr Uhl, a leading human rights activist, who was charged in connection with the spreading of news about the alleged death of Martin Smid at police hands Friday. The state news agency CTK said he was charged with "the crimes of harming the interests of the republic abroad and spreading alarming news...
Alberto Aquino Hernandez, 28, a truck driver for one of the area's smaller gas companies, had just arrived at the gas-distribution center operated by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). "I was counting my cylinders of liquid gas when everything exploded," he said later. "The explosion knocked me off my truck. There was fire everywhere. I started running. My clothes were on fire, my jacket and shirt. My hair was on fire. Somehow I managed to smother the flames, and then a bus stopped and took me to a clinic...
...women are required to wear brassieres and skirts of "modest length"--with a maximum slit of three inches. Culottes, decollete dresses and spaghetti straps are forbidden under the code, as are ankle bracelets because "they make the guys think you're from the wrong side of the tracks," Penny Petr, an ORU sophomore, jokes. "I know it sounds terrible, but it's not that bad. I like the college," she says...
...merits for Soviet society was reached, Russian jazz buffs were encouraged. Among other things going for them: Kosygin has one of the largest jazz record collections inside Russia. More important, the duumvirate fired Khrushchev's hated chief ideologue Leonid Ilyichev, replaced him with Party Secretary Petr Demichev. Demichev has informed Soviet artists and writers that the party will no longer interfere in matters of style, though it still retains the threat to clamp down on "nonSocialist content." Today a Socialist abstract painting is not a target of automatic denunciation. Such Western authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Updike...
Bolshevichka today gleams with pride: flowers adorn each work table, the walls are freshly painted and adorned with photographs of its workers shaking hands with Party bigwigs, who arrive in ever increasing numbers to see the miracle that has come to pass. To one and all, beaming Director Petr Noskov reports that Bolshevichka's profit margin has risen to 7%, that the average pay is up from $94 a month to $110, and that the factory is now making better suits at a cheaper price ($85 v. $96) and are (oh, that Capitalist idiom) "selling like hot cakes...