CRITIC TRIED
Igor Galamchuk, a well-known Soviet literary critic, was given a suspended six-month sentence May 4 for ‘refusing to testify last February against the two Soviet writers Andrei S. Sinyavsky.. and Yuli M. Daniel who were sentenced to seven and five years . respectively on charges of "slandering" the Soviet Union in works of theirs smuggled and published abroad.
Galamchuk admitted in court that he had-read some of the |. books by Sinyavsky that had been printed abroad. but he.courageously refused to say how he obtained the books and he denied that. they chad. been given to him by his friend Sinyavsky. :
It was said in Moscow that Galamchuk will. be permitted to continue his work at the Gorky Institute of World Literature. This relatively lenient attitude as well’ as’ the suspension of sentence. were undoubtedly decided upon by the Kosygin-Brezhnev regime in view of the storm of protest over the sentencing of Sinyavsky and Daniel for satirizing certain aspects of Soviet life.
"It was reliably reported," declared Raymond H. Anderson in a special dispatch from Moscow published in the May 4 New York Times, "that a professor :who taught Mr. Sinyavsky at Moscow University had also-refused to. testify against his former student. The professor is said to be still on the university staff, but it is reported by students that his lectures have been canceled."
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