Word: sovietized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American Caution. The two negotiating teams will meet alternately at the U.S. and Soviet embassies in Helsinki. No agenda has been fixed for the talks. There was some speculation that the Soviets might make a bold proposal, such as an immediate freeze on the development and deployment of nuclear weaponry. The American team is definitely under instructions to proceed cautiously and try to find out what the other side has in mind before making any offers...
Guarded Forecasts. Both sides have topflight delegations. The six-man Soviet team is led by Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semyonov, 58, the No. 3 man in the Soviet foreign office. His chief political aide is Georgy Kornienko, a Russian "America watcher." The others are scientists and generals. In view of the Soviet fetish for secrecy, the appearance of technicians in Helsinki was taken by some Westerners as an indication that the Kremlin plans to bargain seriously...
...American delegation will stay at a resort hotel called Fisherman's Hut, which overlooks the Bay of Finland. At present, the Americans hope to probe Soviet intentions for a couple of weeks and then return to Washington for instructions before serious talks...
Even in the face of official Soviet persecution, Russia's greatest living writer remains true to his credo. Last week the clandestine texts became available of Solzhenitsyn's statements before a committee of literary bureaucrats who sought to expel him from the local branch of the Soviet Writers Union in the town of Ryazan, 115 miles southeast of Moscow. "I am ready to accept even death, not only expulsion from the union," he told his accusers, who charge him with allowing his books to be published in the West. "Vote! You can vote. You are in the majority...
...defense at the Ryazan meeting, which took place two weeks ago. The leader of the attack on Solzhenitsyn was a hack writer named Vasily Matushkin. He conceded that he had never read Solzhenitsyn's novels The First Circle and Cancer Ward, which are banned in the Soviet Union because they are a devastating portrayal of conditions in Stalin's concentration camps. Matushkin, however, contended that the West uses the books "to throw mud on our motherland." "How do you explain that they so eagerly print you in the West?" he asked. "And how do you explain that they...