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Sympathetic Relations. Inevitably, some of the Red newsmen succumbed to habit and unreeled a few meters of the Red line. After the race riots in Birmingham and Montgomery, Pravda's Viktor Maevsky discovered a parallel between the "fascists" of the John Birch Society and the "fascists" who beat up the Freedom Riders. Erofeev complained about the "irresponsibility of the American press." Said he: "We met American corespondents at length, and the next morning articles would appear, vindictive and hostile, destructive of sympathetic relations between our countries...
...that the religious tolerance they were enjoying is no willing concession. An article in the leading newspaper of Kazakhstan, where many Russian Moslems live, pointed out that the basic Soviet attitude toward Islam is as hostile as it is toward all other religions. The followers of Mohammed, said Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, submit to a "profoundly reactionary'' religion. The paper accused the Moslem clergy of not encouraging the cause of socialism, of not teaching their congregations "to study or investigate the phenomena of life, since this life, according to the Koran, is only ephemeral...
...Pravda attacked Islam because "even now it tries to legitimize the inequality of men and women, and to justify the shameful heritage of past polygamy." In Russia. Pravda adds, "there are no longer any abused, ignorant, semi-slave females who are exchanged for cattle, sold and kidnaped." Moreover, Moslem teaching divides the world into believers and nonbelievers: "Class interests are replaced by religious interests." History, the paper concludes, "knows of no religion whose advocates and prophets ever attained a happy life for the people of the East. Only the October Revolution brought the peoples of the central Asian republics true...
...Pravda also shed some light on how Venusnik was separated from the booster that lifted it piggyback into space. At a predetermined point on orbit around the earth, when the satellite reached a great speed, the booster was separated-whether automatically or by radio signal from earth, the Soviets did not say. The booster stayed on orbit, while Venusnik hurtled on alone. As it broke away from the earth's gravitation, it moved into a solar orbit at 61,000 m.p.h...
...time for my TV show," cried Nik suddenly, reaching for his sunglasses. "Why don't you interview my daughter Sonia? Pravda has picked her as favorite in the May Day egg-rolling contest on the Kremlin lawn...