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...remain in prison for their alleged complicity in the 1965 putsch against then President Sukarno. The uprising was launched by junior army officers purportedly in concert with senior members of the now outlawed Indonesian Communist Party. The six detainees expected to be put to death soon are Iskandar and Ruslan Widjayasastra, 72, both party Central Committee members; I. Bungkus, 61, a sergeant in Sukarno's elite security guard; Marsudi, 53, a sergeant major in the air force; Sukatno, 61, chairman of the party's youth organization; and Asep Suryaman, 62, an alleged member of the party's "special bureau," which...
...Novy Mir, the respected Soviet literary monthly, Vladimov has not had a word published in the Soviet Union since July 1969. His fiction evidently drew too accurate a portrait of how Stalin's shadow still hangs over the Soviet system. His best-known novel in the West, Faithful Ruslan, an imaginative story about a labor-camp guard dog who finds he cannot live in a world without prisoners, is available only to Soviets willing to risk passing along hand-typed copies...
Georgi Vladimov, 49, is another exceptionally talented writer who has been cut down in mid-career and who is being hounded by the KGB. One reason for the persecution is his celebrated novella, Faithful Ruslan, which has circulated all over the country in samizdat; it was published in the U.S. last year by Simon & Schuster. Ruslan tells of a concentration-camp dog, pitilessly trained to guard convicts, that becomes a stray when most of the Stalinist camps are closed down in 1956. Ruslan, and other dogs of his kind, keep a vigil at the local railway station, hoping...
...native style-spare, exact, free of rhetorical flourish-which set the tone for the epic prose era that was to follow, from Gogol to Chekhov. In rich, full-blooded dramas like Boris Gudunov, he helped to free the Russian stage from its prim, Racine-engendered formalities. Poems like Ruslan and Liudmila, Memory and The Bronze Horseman grandly exploded the prevailing notion of the day that poetry should be either didactic or sentimental. "Good lord," said Pushkin impatiently, "the aim of poetry is poetry...
...problem is one that bothers every new nation -reconciling the need for system and order with democratic procedures when no one has much experience in such matters. Worked out in collaboration with his able Prime Minister Djuanda and National Council Chief Ruslan Abdulgani...