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Less for Officialdom. The national papers have been trying to win readers, who pay two kopecks (the price of two cigarettes) per paper, by publishing more human-interest stories. Last year, for instance, they covered the Tashkent earthquakes, which would previously have been reported only in the local Uzbek papers. Izvestia recently ran a story describing how a bus skidded and fell into a lake-albeit in a very positive way. It reported that a policeman rescued six of the passengers, but said nothing about the other 64, who presumably were not so lucky...
...Ayub and Shastri meet in Tashkent this week under the sponsoring eye of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, that old Uzbek saying sounds overoptimistic. Kosygin invited the pair to Tashkent during the height of last summer's Indo-Pakistani border war. Since then, an uneasy, U.N.-imposed "ceasefire" has been torn almost daily by vicious, small-scale clashes, and both sides have counted more than 3,596 "violations...
...itinerary were less than enlightening. In a Tashkent opera house, the six sat yawning through a two-hour program of eulogies for an obscure poet, but managed to salvage a guffaw when a Canadian Communist named Tim Buck stood up to describe how the local hero-who wrote in Uzbek -had given Buck's fellow Canadians "great inspiration fighting imperialists and warmongers...
...Near fabled Samarkand, in the Uzbek Soviet republic, Chairman Hakim Mamadiarov of the Karl Marx collective farm was denounced for living like an Oriental potentate. Despite the Soviet ban on polygamy, Moslem Hakim has three wives, as permitted by the Koran, and each wife has a well-appointed separate residence, garden, and private herd of cows. Hakim himself has a house assessed at $22,200, plus a Volga auto, two motorbikes, a radio-phonograph console, a tape recorder and several TV sets. Of two peasants who protested his running of the farm, one was badly beaten, the other vanished. Demanding...
...them to the letter. In a speech last June in Central Asia, Khrushchev cried: "Comrades, you should do everything to develop herds of horses for meat. I don't need to tell you that horse meat is tasty and nourishing." A Tashkent newspaper last week complained that some Uzbek farmers had taken Khrushchev at his word and had rushed 18 thoroughbreds and three pedigreed stallions straight from the local race track to the slaughterhouse...