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These may sound like Western news reports, but, in fact, they all described events in the Communist world last week. While President Carter met with leaders of six other industrial nations in Tokyo, the Soviet Union's Premier Aleksei Kosygin was conferring with the leaders of the ten nations in the Soviet-led Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON). The chief problem: Soviet oil production, the largest in the world and chief source of COMECON supply, has fallen 23 million bbl. over five months. Actually, Soviet production was supposed to increase by 154 million bbl. this year...
...Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee solved the shortage by simply ordering the Soviet oil industry to meet its quota by the end of the year. Whether that order will be fulfilled remains uncertain, but Pravda last week sounded a note familiar to Western readers: "Let every person who produces fuel or uses electrical or fuel energy ask himself: Has he done everything to raise production and avoid waste...
...some Polish journalists would have "ideological and propaganda tasks" throughout the trip and that their stories, even those in nominally independent church publications, would be scrutinized by two five-man censorship teams. The document also recommended that a group of Polish journalists be assigned as propagandists to accompany "certain Western newsmen who show a hostile bias toward...
...example, Poland's morning dailies all had virtually the same story of the Pope's arrival at the same place on the front page with the same photograph of the prelate meeting Party First Secretary Edward Gierek. But the scheme to assign Polish journalists to keep troublesome Western counterparts in line was evidently not used; though many of the Poles covering the Pope wrote little, there were no reports of overt propagandizing. Polish state television was not given specific instructions in the memo, but one cameraman admitted that it was under orders not to show the huge crowds...
...first film, They Live by Night, won critical plaudits for its stark depiction of teen-age alienation, loneliness and savage cruelty-themes he later developed in the psychological western Johnny Guitar and the '50s cult film starring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause. Ray's fortunes faded in Hollywood in the 1960s, not to be revived by blockbuster fiascos he made abroad...