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(7 of 13) Freedom of speech is guaranteed in the Soviet constitution but is in fact unknown; any serious critic of the regime is harassed, imprisoned and sometimes even threatened with execution. Strikes do not occur because they would ruthlessly be suppressed. All organs of information and communication are subverted...
Even so, official court notices posted last week proclaimed the execution of "counterrevolutionary elements" in Hangchow, and the campaign continues against associates of the Gang of Four. Nor has there been any softening of the regime's insistence that the U.S. abandon Taiwan (the issue is low on the...
Shcharansky faces a sentence that ranges from ten years in prison to an unlikely extreme of execution if he is convicted, and Attorney Dubrovskaya probably could not get him off even if she seriously attempted to. After all, he has already been convicted in the Soviet press. Tass Commentator Yuri...
At a cocktail party, an Ethiopian official smilingly told the reporters that "we may be forced to take a revolutionary step against those deviating from the program." Since "revolutionary step" is the government euphemism for an execution, the bad joke drew some ragged laughter-but not from those who had...
So before I go any further (have I gone far enough already?) I'll indulge in one--possibly obnoxious--disclaimer. I have almost always hated critics in general, and have never aspired to theater criticism myself. Hence, this is not really a review. I also admit that I have no...