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...Prague, new Czechoslovak Party Boss Alexander Dubček scolded the So viet Ambassador for continuing to visit and consult with the man who was recently deposed from power, Antonin Novotný. Calling Stepan Chervonenko into his office, Dubček expressed "surprise and indignation" at this breach of party etiquette...
SHOSTAKOVICH: THE EXECUTION OF STEPAN RAZIN and SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Melodiya-Angel). Razin was a 17th century Cossack rake who divided his energies between pillaging the Volga Valley and leading whole cities in uprisings against the Czar. When he was finally captured and executed, his severed head, so goes the legend, continued to shout defiance and inspired further rebellions. Evgeny Evtushenko has put the story in poetry, and Shostakovich here sets the theme to unabashedly patriotic music. Sung in stirring form by Bass Vitaly Gromadsky...
...banquet celebrating the trade agreement. Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko carried the thaw a bit further by pledging that "all attempts by the imperialists and various reactionaries to seek fissures in the relations between the Soviet Union and China are doomed to failure." But despite the slight show of conciliation on both sides, the Communist world's most fascinating quarrel seemed a long way from being patched...
...another landmark in Khrushchev's campaign to overtake the U.S. in everything from meat production to widget manufacture. "When it comes to shooting at the moon or at the basket, the U.S. cannot keep up with Russia," trumpeted a leftist Chilean paper. "We won," declared Russian Coach Stepan Spandarian loftily, "because we did what we planned...
...Prague, after a two-day trial, Czechoslovakia's supreme court sentenced Roman Catholic Bishop Stepan Trochta, 49, of Litomerice, to 25 years in prison for "spying" for the Vatican. At the same time three priests who were associated with him were sentenced to 20, 15 and seven years. As a leader of resistance against the Nazis and a known friend to Christians, Jews and Communists during years as a prisoner in Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps, Trochta was long wooed by the Czech Communist regime, which hoped to turn him into a "progressive" bishop. Trochta himself had hoped...