Youth scare Kremlin

we LEADING Soviet novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, has made a bitter and outspoken attack on the mediocrities who control the Union of Soviet Writers. He also warns the bureaucracy of the growing anger of the youth He attacks the hypocrisy or unose unnealiny lal ones wno noisily pursued writer vardovsky when he was alive and then stood guard over his funeral bier writers' union headMense charges dear in i editor of "Nished se in the prison camps.

underground, become bureaucracy's tame scribes who are utterly discredited, the novelist writes:

in a sold god up and thesie.

now we have destroy comered him. They our only journal ['Novy Mir'] thought they were victorious.' But, the poem warns:

Fools our yols. Wing oht, toen of have this patient out se heeded. You will want grub up the earth with your ands to bring back vardovsky!. But it vich [i.e. is too late in is sar words, hounded syn is saying, your liberal ritic, now yo cannot avoid those, ntil the hates regime all teh p Writers has just expelled two one win soil the Starkion ione had voted for expulsion from retted it and had circulated 1969 but later re poems supporting Solzhenitsyn's stand Both writers were expelled for 'behaviour incompatible Writer the status of a Soviet ANOTHER SIGN of mounting opposition and the anxiety which this causes in Kremlin is shown by a fullcale attack on Trotskyism by Boris Ponomarev, secretary of the Central Committee e of the Soviet Union, which appears in the latest Issue of its theoretical organ, 'Kommunist.

Full of the usual Stalinist and distortions, it is interest not me Trotskyism is because it "capable of turning finds support 'primarily mong th younger generation' Challenge That an article of this kind should occupy the attention of a leading Soviet 'theoretician' is a sign that the bureaucracy knows from which direction the main challenge to its rule will come.

Many Soviet youth, workers and contemptuous the official ideology are turning to the historical record to find out where the bureaucracy inspiration from the past is came from and are drawing Of course, Solzhenitsyn not part of this tendency. But he well recognizes the risks which the bureaucracy itself is running by hounding men like Tvardovsky, who tried to take a middle-of-the-road position. CORRESPONDENT PEASANT CHIEF TO O-OPERATE ITH AWAMI LEAGUE being Intervlewed by Wall Ashraf In New Delhl MAULANA • BHASHANI's peasant-based National Awami Party will do nothing to oppose the rightwing Awami League government in Bangla Desh for at least a year.

'The Maulana does not want to cause problems for the government at this time, Mr Wali Ashraf, editor-inchief of the London Bengali weekly Janomot' told me yesterday.

Arriving at Heathrow yesterday, Mr Ashraf said the Maulana was shocked at the suggestion that he had been under arrest.

'He was one of the first across the border into India because of his age and bécause he could see what was coming, Mr Ashraf told me.

The Maulana's view is that we should wait one year to see what the Awami League will do.

'The National Awami Party is represented on the eightman "consultative committee which advises the government and this gives the Maulana enormous influence.

'Up to now anything the consultative committee suggested has been accepted.

The committee is made up of both wings of the National Awami Party (NAP) Congress Party and the Awami League.

The Prime Minister is also a member.

For the moment the withheld