«Issue 7 : 30 April 1969» EIGHTEEN ITEMS [1] On 15 April in Riga a student, Ilya Rips, tried to immolate himself. Under the Freedom Obelisk, set up when Latvia was independent, he unfurled a banner with the words FREEDOM FOR CZECHOSLOVAKIA. A hostile crowd gathered around him. The youth threw off his overcoat, under … Continue reading News in brief, April 1969 (7.13)
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Extra-judicial repression, Ukraine & elsewhere, 1968-9 (7.12)
<<No 7 : 30 June 1969>> 19 NAMES * DNEPROPETROVSK [DNIPRO] (1-11) "ZORYA" NEWSPAPER [1-4] [1] S.Yu. Sheinin, one of the oldest journalists on the newspaper Zorya [Dawn], has been expelled from the Party and dismissed from work for a favourable review of The Cathedral, a novel by Oles Gonchar (Ukr. Honchar) [1]. [2] M.T. … Continue reading Extra-judicial repression, Ukraine & elsewhere, 1968-9 (7.12)
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