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...biggest coalfields last week. Wildcat strikes by more than 300,000 workers paralyzed some 250 mines and factories in the Kuzbass and Donbass basins, resulting in a 6 million-ton loss of production. The walkout spread as far as the coalpits in Vorkuta in the far north and Karaganda in the Kazakhstan Republic in Central Asia. And there were rumblings that railroad workers might join in on Aug. 1, an action that could paralyze the country. "Such developments create a threat to the realization of the great plans we have decided upon," warned Gorbachev, referring to his economic-reform program...
...first novel. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, depicts just a part of this endurance. Accused of being a spy after escaping from German occupied territory. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sentenced to ten years in a special Siberian labor camp for "class dangerous elements", like the camp Karaganda where Solzhenitsyn spent eight years. Solzhenitsyn considers only the day of one victim of Stalin's forced industrialization and intensification of totalitarian control. But it is estimated that about four million people died in the labor camps between 1927 and 1940, not by premeditated genocide but from the disease, fatigue...
...declared Nikolayev. Though Tass had left the impression that the two cosmonauts had ridden their capsules all the way to the ground, both spacemen said that they had been ejected, and parachuted to earth after re-entering the atmosphere; the pair landed six minutes and 124 miles apart near Karaganda, 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow. The parachuted capsules came floating down near...
Kiss on Earth. The Falcon landed first, at 9:55 Wednesday morning, in the hill and desert country near Karaganda, a Kazakhstan city 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow; he had completed 64 orbits, and in four days had traveled 1,663,000 miles, 3^ times the distance to the moon and back. Six minutes later, after 48 orbits and 1,247,000 miles, Popovich landed some miles away in the same region. Both men apparently stayed on board their capsules all the way down, unlike Titov, who parachuted to earth after completing his flight. Helicopters picked...
Bleak Notations. The hypocrisy of the code of socialist realism is equally repellent to Yesenin-Volpin. His Russia is one of pain ("The only beauty that I know"), drugs, suffering, alcoholism, prison; many of the poems in The Leaf of Spring (Praeger; $3) bear such bleak notations as Lubyanka, Karaganda and Prison of Chernovtsy-the jails, mental institutions and concentration camps where Yesenin-Volpin has spent most of his adult life...