RUSSIA MEET COMRADE PUNKOVSKY THERE WAS NO APPLAUSE FROM THE CROWD THAT 
JAMMED A TENNIS COURT IN SOUTHWEST MOSCOW'S LUZHNIKI SPORTS GROUNDS . 
IN THE BIGGEST TRIAL OF ITS KIND EVER HELD IN THE 
SOVIET CAPITAL, 2,000 MUSCOVITES MET AT THE STADIUM AS A PEOPLE'S 
COURT TO PASS JUDGMENT ON THREE " YOUNG, HEALTHY FELLOWS " 
WHO WERE ACCUSED OF HAVING " WASTED THEIR YOUTH " ON 
DRUNKEN SPREES, GAMBLING, AND BLACK MARKET DEALINGS WITH FOREIGNERS . AFTER 
THE CITIZENS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO BANISH THE WASTRELS FROM MOSCOW, ALL 
THREE WERE SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS' HARD LABOR IN WHAT THE 
AUTHORITIES DELICATELY CALLED " A REMOTE PART OF THE COUNTRY . 
" THE TRIAL, WHICH WAS FRONT-PAGE NEWS IN PRAVDA, WAS STAGED 
AS PART OF A NEW SOVIET CAMPAIGN TO MAKE LIFE HARDER 
FOR WESTERN SPIES AND DULLER FOR COMMUNIST PARTYGOERS . SINCE LAST 
MONTH'S TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF OLEG PENKOVSKY, THE SCIENTIFIC OFFICIAL WHO 
WAS CONVICTED OF SLIPPING SECRET INFORMATION TO BRITISH AND U.S . 
AGENTS, THE SOVIET PRESS HAS BEEN URGING COMRADES TO " BREAK 
THE CRIMINAL CHAIN OF ESPIONAGE " BY SHOWING " REVOLUTIONARY VIGILANCE 
AND BEING IDEOLOGICALLY WELL-STEELED . " RUSSIANS WERE PARTICULARLY WARNED AGAINST 
MOSCOW'S DIPLOMATIC COCKTAIL CIRCUIT, WHERE, SAID PRAVDA DARKLY, WESTERN SPYMASTERS RECRUIT 
NEW TALENT . WARNED PRAVDA : " THAT WAS HOW THEY 
GOT HOLD OF PENKOVSKY, AND THE SAME THING MAY HAPPEN TO 
ANYONE WHO, IN HIS BLINDNESS, NIBBLES AT THE BAIT THE IMPERIALISTS 
SO LAVISHLY TOSS OUT . " IZVESTIA CHIMED IN WITH AN 
ACID-ETCHED PORTRAIT OF THE KIND OF COMRADE THE IMPERIALISTS ARE LOOKING 
FOR . DUBBING HIM " PUNKOVSKY " FOR PUNK IZVESTIA REPORTED 
THAT THIS UNSAVORY TYPE CHERISHES A NEVERENDING STREAM OF GOLD-EMBOSSED INVITATIONS 
TO DIPLOMATIC RECEPTIONS, WHERE HE CAN BE SPOTTED BY HIS " 
EMPTY PHRASES AND FULL GLASS . " HE IS THE SORT 
OF MAN WHO, WHEN BENNY GOODMAN VISITS MOSCOW, CARRIES HIS CLARINET 
CASE . THOSE OLD PANTS HE WEARS SO PROUDLY WERE BESTOWED 
ON HIM BY A BRITISH TRAVELING SALESMAN . " GIVE ME 
A TIE AND SOME SOCKS, " PUNKOVSKY TELLS A WESTERN CULTURAL 
ATTACHE, " AND I'LL INTRODUCE YOU TO SOME OF MOSCOW'S ANGRY 
YOUNG MEN . " THE SOVIET PEOPLE ARE NOT INCLINED TO 
SEE A SPY IN EVERY FOREIGNER, " OFFICIALS INSISTED . NONETHELESS, 
THEY WARNED, IF FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND NEWSMEN CONTINUE TO INVITE PUNKOVSKYS 
AND PENKOVSKYS TO THEIR PARTIES, " REAL, HONEST SOVIET PEOPLE " 
MIGHT BOYCOTT THEM ALTOGETHER . TO SHOW THAT ITS DIATRIBES WERE 
NOT JUST COCKTAIL TALK, THE GOVERNMENT LAST WEEK STRIPPED ARTILLERY CHIEF 
MARSHAL SERGEI VARENSTOV OF HIS RANK FOR HAVING BEFRIENDED PENKOVSKY, DISCIPLINED 
SOME OF " THE SCIENTIST'S OTHER FRIENDS AND BOOZING COMPANIONS . 
" / OF COURSE, " ADDED PRAVDA, " WE ARE AGAINST 
SPY MANIA . / 