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Soviet officials seem unhappy with their computer industry. Earlier this year, a vice chairman of the state planning committee complained in an article in Pravda that just about everything was wrong with the computer effort, including underutilization of machines, missing printout attachments and poorly motivated technicians and managers...
...Show. Not to the Soviet censors. They called it an "anti-Soviet caricature-irrelevant, immature and politically illiterate," and said it could not be displayed. Very well, said Glazunov, cancel the show. Unblushing, the head of the Soviet Artists Union wrote the next day in Pravda that "for us, there are no forbidden themes and genres...
More seriously, Pravda last week pointed to injustice to blacks and other minorities in the U.S., accusing Carter of "closing his eyes to the suffering of tens of millions of U.S. citizens who are without rights." Earlier, Tass had accused Carter of "using the most absurd and wild concoctions borrowed from the stock in trade of reactionary bourgeois propaganda." At his press conference last week, Carter observed: "I believe that the pressure of world opinion might be making itself felt on them, and perhaps I'm kind of a scapegoat...
...Geneva last week. The outcome, once Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko sit down at the conference table, could well cause the atmospheric pressure between the two nations to rise rapidly or fall. The surface winds out of the East are blustery. Writing in Pravda, Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov charged that "aggressive imperialist forces are speeding up the arms race" and trying to "impede positive changes in international relations...
...Washington-based committee has succeeded in drumming up national and international publicity for the convicts. Black Radical Angela Davis, speaking to a Communist rally in Paris two weeks ago, claimed that the case was part of a national racist conspiracy in the U.S. Pravda featured a jailhouse interview with Chavis and added that the U.S. press had ignored his appeal while devoting "whole pages to inventions about the so-called persecution of 'dissidents' in socialist countries...