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SOVIET INTELLECTUALS PROTEST TRIAL OF WRITERS IN MOSCOW
The impending trial of four imprisoned Soviet intellectuals in Moscow has evoked a new wave of protests by the Soviet intellectual community. The defendants, including Aleksandr Ginzburg, have been held for eleven months without trial. They are charged with "slandering" the Soviet Union.
The December 13 issue of the Paris daily Le Monde reports that two petitions have been circulated on behalf of the prisoners, one signed by 100 "personalities of the world of letters"; the second signed by forty-four.
Le Monde comments that "the mere fact of the existence of these petitions indicates a change. The intellectuals are no longer afraid to take risks. They express their views and no longer passively accept what has been decided on high.'
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