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...National Rights, a moderate group devoted to Ukrainian civil rights. Charged with disseminating "anti-Soviet" propaganda, the defendants were sentenced to an average of ten years' hard labor and exile. Among those convicted was Danylo Shumuk, 58, who had previously spent 28 years in prisons and camps-in prewar Poland for being a Communist, under Nazi occupation for the same reason, and under the Soviet government for "Ukrainian nationalism." After his release in 1967, Shumuk wrote his memoirs of prison life and apparently circulated the work of Yugoslav Writer Milovan Djilas (The New Class), for which he has been...
...billion is 13th in the non-Communist world, just behind Sweden and ahead of The Netherlands. Per capita income has surpassed $1,000 per year, up from $317 in 1960; that is still well behind the Common Market countries but light-years ahead of a prewar standard of living that compared to Bulgaria and Portugal. Spain is the world's fourth largest shipbuilder, ranks 13th in steel production, and this year has assembled 600,000 automobiles, including Spanish-built Fiats and Renaults. Some of that production was exported to African, Latin American and even to European countries, where Spanish...
...Thomas Beecham (1933-35) and, at long last on LP, the Beethoven Violin and Piano Sonatas Nos. 5 and 10 with Artur Schnabel (1948). Though the sound is monaural, it has been restored lovingly and retains much of the warmth that characterized the best of Europe's prewar 78-r.p.m. shellacs...
...English Girls is an almost precise parallel of the earlier film. This time it is two women sisters in love with the same man not two men with one woman, and here the nationalities are French and English and not French and German. But there is the same prewar period and the same complicated triangle of inter-relationships Claude Roc (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a timorous young Frenchman of a slowly eroding fortune and an over-fond mother meets a young English girl. Anne Brown, visiting Paris. The two become friends, and in time Claude makes a reciprocal visit...
...Sweden has announced that it will give $70.5 million to North Viet Nam over the next three years. The French, who have never got Viet Nam out of their blood, will seek to revive the huge Michelin rubber plantations near Saigon, which are now producing at scarcely 40% of prewar levels. The French also plan to make investments in transportation and trucking in the South. Meanwhile, in West Germany, Britain and other nations, businessmen are looking forward to winning construction or development contracts...