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sont of life will the 250 million-
"committed in a drunken state,
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-- Reuter.
LONDON TIMES
18 November 1974
Parapsychology in Russia
From Dr John Beloff and others
Sir; We are gravely disquieted. by
. the treatment apparently meted out
. to Mr .Eduard K :. Naumov, formerly
of the All-Union Scientific Research
. Institute of Medical Technology,
who was sentenced to two years'
hard labour on March 26, 1974, and
to his former collaborators some of
whom are reported to have lost
their posts and to have been sub-
jected to various forms of harass-
ment.
' Naumov's name is well known in .
the West as one who has worked
tirelessly for East-West collabora-
tion in the field of parapsychology.
We do not wish to imply either a
belief in any particular parapsycho-
·logical phenomena, or to endorse
any opinion on this controversial
subject that Mr Naumov or his .
colleagues may have expressed. :
However, we are concerned at
.reports that he may have been per-
secuted because of his cordial and
numerous contacts with Western
scientists, and because of the fact
that he has publicly encouraged
research into parapsychological
phenomena at a time when; for
political reasons, the Soviet authori-
ties have decided to concentrate
· research and publication in the
hands of officially sanctioned and
compliant
protagonists.
Recent
events and pronouncements suggest
that such a study will only be .
tolerated under psychiatric and
psychological auspices, and that an
end will be put to the activities of
any Russian amateur venturing into
." paranormal "
territory
without
official sanction.
Reports have reached us suggest-
ing that, while Naumov has been
sentenced for illegally taking fees
for lecturing at a Moscow club, this
money was in fact collected by the
club's director and his assistant ;
that these two gentlemen have been . .
certified as schizophrenic and sub-
jected to involuntary treatment at
. the Serbsky Institute for Forensic
. Psychological Expertise under the
Directorship
of
Academician
'Snezhnevsky.
Thus, the only witnesses who
could have cleared Naumov of the
charge of illegally taking lecture
fees have been hospitalized ; the
expert witness at Naumov's trial
was . none other than Dr Snezh-
nevsky who reiterated his well-
known conviction . that
para-
psychology . is a pseudo-science
based on idealism and mysticism ;
and it would appear that the
numerous -witnesses -who testified
to the fact that they had bought.
the tickets. for Naumov's lectures.
from the club's director or. . his
assistant were ignored.
All these circumstanke stigeest
that there may have been : a mis-
carriage of justice. . It is ) also.
reported that Naumov, who is no
longer young, and is in poor health,
has been subjected to very harsh
treatment, that he has been beaten,
and that he was interrogated while
suffering from pneumonia and a
temperature of. 40℃. We very
much hope that there will be an
official investigation into the cir-
cumstances
under
which : Mr
Naumov was accused and sentenced,
and that any harassment of his
former collaborators will cease.
Yours faithfully.
JOHN BELOFF, IT ...
of Edin-
burgh, President of the Society for
Psychical Research. '
D. M. A. LEGGETT, Vice Chan-
cellor, The University of Surrey,
J. B. PRIESTLEY,
E.R. DODDS, Oxford,
ROBERT H. THOULESS,
Cambridge,
D. J. WEST, Cambridge,
TED BASTIN, Cambridge,
NORMAN COHN, University of
Sussex,
ROBERT HARVIE, Oxford.
JOSEF SCHUBERT, University of
Sussex, University of Saskatchewan,
FRANCIS HUXLEY,
C. W. K. MUNDLE. University
College of North Wales,
A. J. ELLISON, City University,
ANITA GREGORY, Polytechnic of
North London,
As from
Society for . Psychical
Research, !
Adam and Eve Mews, W8.
November 5.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, London
15 November 1974
SOLZENITSYN
DEBATES RUSSIA
WITHOUT MARX
By Our Communist Affairs
Correspondent
The publication of a collection
of essays on the future of Russia
compiled jointly by the exiled.
author Alexander Solzhenitsyn
and a: Moscow University pro-
fessor was announced at a Press
conference in Moscow yester-
day.
.
The professor, the mathema-
tician Igo: Shafarevich, said the
main purpose of the book was
to start a debate on the future
development of Soviet society
independently of the official
ideology of Marxism .. ..
.
: "In Russia today Marxism
is in no condition to move any-
body or anything," he said. " But
Marxism's ideological monopoly
. prevents the majority of people.
from -- thinking -- about. funda --
mental questions."
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Sunday, Nov. 24, 1974 THE WASHINGTON POST
The Soviets at Kama River:
Big Complex, Big Problems
By Peter Osnos
Osnos is The Washington Post's Moscow correspondent;
MATABEREZHYNE CHELNY, U.S.S.R.
-Using more than $1 billion worth
of Western technology and equipment,
the Soviet Union is building the world's
largest heavy-duty automotive works on
the snow-covered Russian steppes.
By any measure, the project is im-
mense. About 130,000 people are here
working on 150 buildings spread across
a site that is 40 miles square. A com-
pletely new city has been erected, and
its population grows by thousands ev-
ery month.
:Some time in 1976, it is hoped, the
. first truck will come off the assembly
line. At full capacity the plant will
turn out 150,000 trucks and 250,000 die -.
sel engines a year. In other words, in
this single project the Soviet Union
will add about 25 per cent to its cur-
rent annual production of heavy trans-
port-a major boost to the economy. .
.
The Soviets call the project KamAZ,
after the Russian words for. Kama
River Automotive Factory, and the
name has become symonymous here
with grand-some would say grandiose
-planning in the modern age. Perhaps
' more important, KamAZ is the most .
elaborate example to date of post-Cold
War cooperation between the Kremlin
and Western industry.
"KamAZ-The Billion Dollar. Begin-
ning," . is how the Chase Manhattan
Bank titled a thick book it prepared
this year for prospective Western
contractors. The bank is financing $86.4
million of the plant, a substantial invest-
ment in the prospects for
nded
trade with the Soviets.
U.S.S.R.
Moscow
Kama River
Naberezhnye
Chelny
Volga
a River
'By Joseph Mastrangelo - The Washington Post:
many foreign interests have made
KamAZ even more of a challenge to the
Soviets than they apparently realized
· when work began nearly five years ago.
At the start, the vision was simple and.
appealing: a joining of Soviet needs and ...
manpower with foreign skills. But tror ..
ble soon came. The Soviets and the
.: Western clients disagreed about. design."
tems are not in place by the end of the
·month.
The delays may prove costly to the
Soviets, and they have already been.
embarrassing.
Western visitors to KamAZ, mostly
government officials and politicans
like Sen. Walter Mondale (D-Minn),
who was recently here, get a tightly.
controlled tour and a cautiously up-
beat appraisal of the situation from
Lev Borisovich Vasilyev, deputy minis-
ter of the automobile industry, who is
KamAZ's director.
: Representatives of the contracting"
firms complain that they cannot get
access to the site for the detailed in-
spections they need to make for instal-
lation of machinery. Even the U.S. em-
bassy was. twice refused permission. to
send diplomats to KamAZ in the first
four months of this year. Since then
twovshort and largely ceremonial visits
have been allowed.
."Plans call for as many as 1,000 West-
ern engineers and specialists to live at
KamAZ for months at a time. Few, if
any, have arrived.
"Tolerance on Both Sides"
HILE KEEPING outsiders at a dis-
tance, the Soviets make no secret
of their own concern over the prob-
leins: Long articles in the industrial
press cite specific shortcomings in con-
struction and productivity. One recent
article told. of an incident in which
equipment operators were idle for 24
shifts in a row because no one had
:given them orders:
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