Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critical of Soviet policy-Involuntary Journey to Siberia and Can the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?-will be published in the West next year, but without the approval of official Soviet organizations. As a result, Amalric has been denied his hard-currency royalties. That, in turn, prompted him last week to send a second open letter to six Western newspapers: "Stalin would have executed me for the fact that my books had been published abroad. His wretched successors only dare to embezzle a part of my money. It only reaffirms my opinion of the degradation and decrepitude of this regime...
...furor in the Soviet Union over its foremost writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, last week gathered momentum. A month ago, Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Russian Writers Union on the charge that his novels, notably The First Circle and Cancer Ward, "threw mud on the motherland." Nine writers are reported to have called personally on the union's secretary to demand reconsideration of the expulsion. Seventy other writers are said to have sent letters or telegrams to the union call ing for a special rehearing of the case, and 300 others have reportedly written letters of protest...
Counterattacking, Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, a master of vivid invective, last week likened Solzhenitsyn to a noxious plant pest. At a meeting of 4,500 Soviet farmers at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the author of And Quiet Flows the Don drew a parallel between literature and collective farming in Russia. "We also have bumper and lean years," he said, "but you farmers have done away with pests, while we, unfortunately, still have Colorado beetles-those who eat Soviet bread but who want to serve Western bourgeois masters and send their works there through secret channels. Soviet...
...Last week Husák all but completed his cleanup of the country's legislatures by forcing 63 liberals out of the Czech National Council, the parliamentary body for the Czech-speaking part of the country. Previously, liberals in the federal Parliament had been replaced by hardliners. Among those expelled in absentia from the Czech Council last week were Economist Ota Sik and Kafka Expert Eduard Goldstücker, former president of the Writers' Union, both of whom have gained refuge in the West. Said Dubček's onetime Culture and Education Minister, Ćestm...
Over the Suez Canal one day last week, Israeli pilots angled in to shoot up Egyptian positions in what has become an almost daily operation. When the Egyptians retaliated by sending planes across the canal, Israeli antiaircraft gunners shot down one plane and an Israeli pilot bagged another. The two represented the 59th and 60th Israeli kills of Egyptian aircraft since the Six-Day War in 1967, against claimed Israeli losses on the Egyptian front of only eight of their own planes...