MAXIMUM 7-YEAR SENTENCE IS ASKED FOR SOVIET EDITOR

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 12, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Is Asked For Soviet Editor
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By BRUCI WINTERS
[MOwow Uurcau of The Sun]
Moscow, Jan. 11 - The prose-
cution demanded the maximum
17 ;year sentence at hard labor to-
day for the 28-year-old editor of
a literary review who is charged
with anti-Soviet activities.
The trial of the young editor
and his three co-defendants ap-
parently was drawing to a close
after four days of proceedings
that have been. open to only a
select group of spectators.
The trial has been watched
closely by the Western diploma-
tic community here for a clue
as to how the Soviet society was
prepared to deal,. with a new
breed of domestic dissenters --
the defendants and '.heir vocal
supporters outside the, court-
room.
No word of the trial has yet
been reported in the Govern-
ment-controlled press.
Not Reported In Press
In the corridor where Western
newsmen and ,most friends and
relatives of the acused have been
gathered since Monday, the at-
ntomphet'c Reetned n dre relaxed
as the trial neared its end.
Civilian guards from the
Young, Communist League and
other plainclothes men of - the
state security police. appeared
almost jovial compared to their
wooden postures of the last
three 'days.
From sketchy, unofficial, of-
ten, contradictory accounts. fil-
tering out of the courtroom, it
was reported that the state
asked the full penalty for Yuri
Galanskov, editor of the clandes-
tine review, Phoenix 66.
For his co-defendant, Alexan-
der Ginsburg, a 32-year-old pet,
the prosecution reportedly
sought a 5-year term. Both men
are deeply involved in Moscow's
literary underground. ?
Turned State's Evidence
For Alexei Dobrovolsky, 29, a,
contributor'to the magazine who)
informants say turned state's
evidence, the prosecution sought
a 2-year sentence, while for the
youngest of the group, 21-year-
old Vera Lashkova, - a 1-year
term was asked.
'All four have been imprisoned
and awaiting trail for nearly
a year since their arrest. There
was reason to believe, however,
this period of detention would be
counted as part of their eventual
sentences.
Again today, the prosecution,)
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the prosecution suggesting, that
the defendants acted trea6on-
Lion of Soviet authorities for its
criticism of the 1966 trial of the
writers, Andrei Sinyavsky and
Yuri Daniel. Then Ginsburg pre-
pared a lengthy defense of the
writers that eventually was pub-
lished in the West.
Treason Not Issue
It is believed they also either
took part in or helped organize
a public demonstration against
the Sinyavsky-Daniel trial'that
took place in downtown Moscow
last January.
There is no evidence, nor is
which is being conducted by the
stntc lawyer who gained a con.
viction against the alleged Brit-
ish spy, Gerald Brooke, sought
to identify the accused with the
anti-Soviet emigre organization
known as the Popular Labor Al-
liance.
The two other defendants also
are acused of maintaining il-
licit contacts with the emigre
group which the prosecution
charges is financed in part by
the American Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
Phoenix 66 caught the atten-
ably, but their' activities fall un-
der Article 70 of the Soviet code
which forbids "agitation or prop-
aganda carried out with the purl
pose of subverting or weakening
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