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...moved to stanch the flow abroad of increasingly defiant statements from the "underground" set of young intellectuals. Officials of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's press section telephoned Western correspondents to warn them against attending a news conference planned by the mother of Aleksandr Ginzburg and the wife of Yuri Galanskov, two of the four sentenced intellectuals. Both men were sent to labor camps after the trial, and the two women had invited the newsmen to hear details of what had gone on inside the courtroom...
...four-Aleksandr Ginzburg, 31, Yuri Galanskov, 29, Aleksei Dobrovolsky, 29, and Vera Lashkova, 21-were accused of editing and printing manuscripts critical of Communist life with the aid of an emigre organization devoted to the overthrow of the Soviet government. They are part of a growing underground of talented young people who, far from aspiring to join the official Soviet Writers Union, write for one another or for export, publish in typewritten secret journals, and believe that they cannot be creative without at times being critical of the government. Arrested last January, they were in jail for a year before...
...prison, the regime has kept at least three in jail for a full year without even going through the formalities of declaring them guilty at a trial. Some 150 leading scientists and writers have petitioned the government to hold an open trial for Aleksei Dobrovolsky, 29, and Yuri Galanskov, 29, who circulated an underground literary journal called Phoenix, and for Aleksandr Ginzburg, 30, who had smuggled to the West the transcript of the 1966 trial of Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel...
...greatest Soviet surprise was the launch vehicle that in 1961 sent Pioneer Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit in Vostok I. Although envious Western space experts have long assumed that a single giant booster had been used to launch Vostok and later Soviet spacecraft, the vehicle displayed at Paris consisted of a relatively small two-stage rocket surrounded by a cluster of four conical, strap-on rocket engines. Instead of achieving the major breakthrough in rocket technology believed by the West to have made the Gagarin flight possible, the Russians had simply strapped together enough smaller rocket engines to provide...
...young people, between her second husband ("whom I did not love") and the cold, mechanical commissar, and above all between herself and the doctor. "The Russia I have lost," she writes, "the Russia that has been taken from me by a cruel fate, as she was taken from Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago . . . wolves howl on your snow-covered plains, the land is still prey to folly and desolation, and there is no end to the rule of the Pharisees. I shall not see you again, I shall not see you for a long time, you have been taken away, abducted...