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Several Soviet emigres disrupted an appearance by prominent Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko last night, attacking his work and accusing him of selling out to the Soviet authorities...
...small demonstration prompted the event's moderator, the curator of the Harvard Film Archive, to cut short Yevtushenko's appearance at the Carpenter Center and escort him from the hall...
...point, a brief fist fight broke out between two members of the audience in the rear of the Carpenter Center auditorium, where Yevtushenko was addressing a crowd of several hundred...
...year-old Yevtushenko, whose poems about the Stalin era, anti-Semitism, and other topics made him a popular hero in the 1960s, is accorded special license and privileges by the Soviet authorities, including the freedom to travel to the United States...
...time the speech was reported in the weekly newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, Yevtushenko had fallen victim to the very timidity he had criticized. The journal deleted his references to Stalin's murderous rule and party favoritism. Yevtushenko professed himself unconcerned by the heavy-handed editing. Said he: "My words were addressed to writers, not the party. I just wanted them to speak their minds...