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...food at the terminals. Last week a despondent traveler told TIME Correspondent John Shaw that he had been caught with 175 Ibs. of cabbage he was trying to take to his village. Police seized 150 Ibs. of his haul. "I'll be back next week," he said ruefully. Pravda reported long queues at bakeries in Gorky, a major industrial center, while travelers said that in cities as widely scattered as Saratov, Yaroslavl and Kharkov, cereals had been virtually unobtainable for weeks. Northerners from the Barents Sea port of Archangel complained that their rationed potatoes were "not much bigger than...
When a reporter phoned the Soviet foreign ministry to inquire about the Moscow crash twelve hours after it happened, an official replied: "What crash?" It was another six hours before Tass, the official news agency, reported the disaster, and still another 18 hours before Pravda covered it in twelve lines on its back page. The Soviets had to acknowledge the tragedy because there were 38 Chileans and five Algerians aboard the flight, which had begun as a charter from Paris; if no foreigners had been involved, the crash might never have been reported. News of the Sochi disaster leaked...
...office building in the Soviet Union, and a storefront in an apartment house is currently the best that the country can offer. Waiting periods for telephone and telex communication with home offices in the U.S. can seem endless. Nor can a U.S. businessman in Moscow place an ad in Pravda for secretarial help; secretaries must be supplied through a government agency that deals mostly with diplomats...
...Pravda promptly hailed the second successful landing in eight Russian Venus probes as "another victory of Soviet science and technology." American scientists, who have sent two spacecraft flying past Venus, were quick to agree. By broadcasting from the surface 37 minutes longer than Venera 7 in December 1970, the latest space shot showed that the Soviet engineers had 1) designed a cooling system that could temporarily withstand the enormous surface temperatures of Venus (more than 900° F.) and 2) built a spacecraft that would not buckle under the planet's crushing surface pressures (about 100 times those...
...will be counted against youths who want to enter Czechoslovakia's overcrowded universities. The Czechoslovak press has launched an all-out attack on religion in general and the Roman Catholic Church in particular. In Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, the most heavily Catholic region, the Communist Party organ Pravda warned readers that religion causes schizophrenia, leads to mental imbalance and encourages crime. The national army paper Obrana Lidu denounced the Vatican as the world's "greatest center of ideological subversion...