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Died. Alice Hughes, 78, newspaper reporter and syndicated columnist; in White Plains, N. Y. For 33 years Hughes wrote "A Woman's New York" for King Features. She also traveled extensively, reporting on culture in countries including Stalin's Soviet Union...
...week's end the Soviets allowed a U.S. newsman to leave after a six-day ordeal that illustrated how seriously the Russians are taking their pledge at Helsinki to "increase the opportunities for journalists to communicate personally with their sources." In an action that was unprecedented since the Stalin era, the KGB forced Los Angeles Times Correspondent Robert Toth to undergo long sessions of hostile and often threatening interrogation in Moscow's dread Lefortovo prison...
...Brezhnev constitution is predictably comprehensive in the multiplicity of guarantees it offers of happiness, freedom and material well-being to Soviet citizens. The old constitution also ensured a wide range of freedoms -press, assembly, religion and speech. As it happened, the 1936 constitution was adopted just as Stalin began his Great Purges, which cost 1 million lives, including that of the document's author, Bolshevik Leader Nikolai Bukharin. The new model not only reiterates most of the old guarantees but also promises Soviet citizens the right to have a house, income and savings, livestock and an assortment of "articles...
...political age in the '30s, when, as she writes, "partisanship with or opposition to Communism made the great intellectual rift in this country." In those days people like Hellman were called Stalinists, though it was a term they would not have chosen for themselves. Hellman publicly supported Stalin's Great Purges, traveled frequently to Moscow and was even invited to meet and interview the dictator in the Kremlin. A decade later the vulpine Senator Joe McCarthy made Hellman and her colleagues his prey...