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...revealing title "Cadres of the Church and Legal Measures to Curtail Their Activities"-appear in the current issue of the human rights journal RCDA: Religion in Communist Dominated Areas. Predictably, Moscow denies the document's authenticity. Claiming never to have seen the memo, Soviet Religious Affairs Spokesman Yuri Smirnov told TIME that it is the work of "enemies" who are "trying to turn the church into a political foe of the state." Said Smirnov: "There is government control of the clergy only to the extent that any citizen is under control " But to Western observers familiar with religion...
...fleet in the Mediterranean (see following story). "The Soviet Union is known to be a Black Sea and, hence, Mediterranean power," the government newspaper Izvestia proclaimed, declaring that Soviet ships were in the Mediterranean to stay. In Red Star, the organ of the Soviet Defense Ministry, Vice Admiral Nikolai Smirnov said it was "imperative for the Soviet Union, in the interests of security," to strengthen its fleet. The presence of Soviet ships in the Mediterranean, the admiral wrote, "does not allow the Sixth Fleet to carry out the Pentagon's designs with impunity and behave as unceremoniously as before...
...Soviet Union has announced the award of the Order of Lenin to Judge Lev N. Smirnov for his "services in strengthening socialist legality." Smirnov is the judge who last year convicted and sentenced Authors Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel to seven and five years respectively in a labor camp for disseminating "slanderous material besmirching the Soviet state and social system...
Absurd Exchanges. As Soviet reporters told it (Western newsmen were excluded from the courtroom), Prosecutor Temushkin did it in predictable style: with the aid and assistance of Judge Lev Smirnov plus two "public prosecutors" and a carefully selected audience of 70, mainly fellow authors and critics. Sinyavsky and Daniel argued that they were not guilty because their works were essentially literature, not propaganda. Sniffed Judge Smirnov: "The court is not involved in literary discussions. Answer us-do you recognize that works written by you have a sincerely anti-Soviet character?" But when Sinyavsky began his reply, "Before answering the question...
...Judge Smirnov: Slander is the circulation of deliberately false, defamatory inventions. This means that what you write is slanderous...