Correspondents' Correspondence Harvard Invitation

...Journalist Vyacheslav Chornovil, literary critic Ivan Dzyuba and writer B. Anto-nenko-Davydovych all refused to participate in proceedings held in camera, in contravention of the Criminal Code...

...far from engaging in anti-Soviet propaganda, he argued he had merely been exposing official lawlessness...

...a suggested level for the present economy is $10,000 a year...

...man or sales executive who thought a two-martini lunch for a client was a wise investment would have to pay the bill...

...He continued: "The Nigerian program, mounted in cooperation with the Federal Livestock Department in Kaduna, will explore ways of recording such fundamental information under Nigerian conditions and adjusting analytical techniques so that the fullest possible use can be made of them in planning, advisory and evaluation activities...

...He was later transferred to an isolation cell at his own request...

...Even so, the campaign is expected to cost nearly $2.4 billion from all sources, and to take something like 40 years to meet its target...

...This tax code and its explanation have taken up less than one page of this magazine...

...Working on an interdisciplinary basis, scientists elsewhere are attempting to chart why the flies select certain people and animals as nutritive hosts...

...He developed a philosophy of individuality that was at odds with the state's "gray face-lessness"-the theme of his later essays...

...The disease, commonly known as sleeping sickness, strikes at humans and animals...

...His trial in November was unusual both for the refusal of prosecution witnesses to testify and for the draconic sentence...

...5. Any taxpaying entity, before calculating his tax, may deduct from his gross income the gross salaries paid to all employes, up to X dollars for each employe (the amount to reflect the point at which workers generally stop being interchangeable and become valuable for particular talents or skills...

...Soviet authorities have never responded to the numerous appeals concerning the case made by Western academics and public officials...

...The effects were traced to the diet additive...

...And every company considering the construction of a new factory would have to make its decision on the basis of the profit it expected the facility to earn...

...he would get no subsidy from the taxpaying men on the assembly line...

...Held in Rome late last year, it called for a long-term program to control tsetse-borne African trypanosomiasis as "a matter of urgency...

...There has been no word from him since last September, when a prison warden assured his wife that he had not yet succumbed to the hunger strike he had...

...Amnesty International, which has been trying to secure Moroz' release since 1971, reports that his wife, Raisa, is "pessimistic about her husband's chances of survival...

...it should be relatively brief...

...and it should be understandable to any high school graduate...

...It was these writings, together with the earlier prison record, that led to his rearrest in June 1970 under Article 62...

...After his release in September 1969, he was only allowed to do menial work as an apprentice woodcarver and as a meterologi-cal assistant...

...The sponsors of the invitation from Harvard declared that they expect "a positive response...

...Scientists were feeding their tsetse flies??which suck the blood of their hosts??on rabbits...

...In a chance encounter at the Vladimir prison, Radygin was barely able to recognize Moroz, who had been starved to a "wire skeleton" and tortured by being incarcerated with insane prisoners...

...To be truly fair to everyone, it should be keyed to gross income...

...March 17...

...At a later stage, the system and techniques adopted for Nigeria will be drawn to the attention of other African countries with the aim of securing an interchange of ideas and coordination of plans affecting many countries...

...A senior research team also has just been dispatched from Reading University to Nigeria, supported by a $122,500 grant, to evaluate recent experiences in animal production and health safety for use elsewhere on the continent...

...So short, so simple, that almost anyone could figure out his own income tax...

...The researchers thus hoped to breed an ample supply of tsetse flies for their experiments, but the diet did not have the desired results...

...During his subsequent four-year sentence in the Mordovian camps, he studied German and English so that he could read Kant, Hobbes and Bertrand Russell...

...1. Every person or organization other than a government agency, including nonprofit institutions, must report and pay tax on all income over $100 received during the previous year according to the rate scale established by Congress...

...begun four months before...

...3. Any taxpaying entity (individual person or organization), before calculating his tax, may deduct from his gross income the wholesale cost of goods sold unused and without substantial change at retail...

...A religious, charitable or educational institution could collect and disburse such money, but would pay taxes like other income recipients...

...An example of the sort of scientific achievements that have made the vast undertaking possible has just been provided by the tsetse research laboratory at the University of Bristol...

...But no taxpayer may deduct the support of more than two of his natural-born children...

...The title-piece-composed in 1967, midway through his first four-year sentence for daring to cite the Ukraine's right of secession under the Soviet Constitution-is a description of prison camps headed by KGB officials who came up through the ranks under Stalin's secret-police chief, Lavrenti P. Beria...

...to a successful new effort in Nigeria, where an area of 60,000 square miles has been recovered for agriculture...

...Nonetheless, against the current tax law??which, stacked on the floor, would tower over him ??he unhesitatingly stands.??Jonathan Kwitny Cattle for the Tropics London-Encouraged by startling new advances in agricultural pest control (see "Pesticide Breakthrough...

...Every P.R...

...The second generation produced mainly malformed young and stopped breeding earlier than normally...

...He is known to be gravely ill with liver and blood ailments...

...If he is supporting persons in his household who did not earn more than $1,000, he may deduct $1,000 for each of them...

...Yet the testimony of philological and ideological "experts" sufficed to convict Moroz of charges carrying a sentence of six years in a special prison, three years in a strict-regime labor camp and five years in exile...

...Major disease control programs have been carried out in Africa and far larger ones are being contemplated without, however, a clear picture on the likely costs and long-term social implications," explained a spokesman for Britain's Ministry of Overseas Development in London...

...But specialists point to fresh developments in the control of the notorious tsetse fly...

...Quite inadvertently, in the course of administering an otherwise harmless pesticide to cattle, it found a means of controlling the fly's ravages...

...A graphic account of Moroz' condition two years ago was issued recently in Israel by Anatoly Rady-gin, a fishing-boat captain released after serving 10-years for attempting to cross the Russian border...

...A new law should be enacted...

...But Moroz continued circulating essays through samizdat, or underground literature, and protested the "Russification" program that he felt threatened local Ukrainian culture...

...But the focus has been on tax reform-"closing loopholes" is the popular phrase- and such half-hearted measures cannot begin to do the whole job...

...2. Any individual, before calculating his tax, may deduct from his reported gross income up to $2,000 for his personal living expenses...

...Even behind prison gates, he reminded a courtroom from which all but police guards were excluded, "There is silence which is louder than shouting.'' Indeed, Moroz' intellectual beginnings were scarcely notable enough to bring him to Harvard's attention...

...By 1964, he had held teaching posts at pedagogical institutes in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankovsk, while finishing his dissertation on "The Lutsk Trial in 1934," a case of "bourgeois Polish" repression of "revolutionary" Ukrainians...

...They have found that the reproductive cycle of the fly is considerably more complicated and easier to disturb than previously assumed...

...Moroz' writings were recently published in English by Cartaract Press as Report from the Beria Reserve...

...There it is...

...Until recently, a project of such magnitude might have been dismissed as a planner's daydream...

...The provisions necessary to prevent these undesirable effects, however, could easily be taken into account...

...The writer concedes some questions may arise, requiring perhaps a few more explanatory paragraphs...

...Shortly after this meeting, Moroz was stabbed by a cellmate...

...The offices of H&R Block-a firm whose mere existence must make Thomas Jefferson writhe in his grave??would have to close down...

...4. Any taxpaying entity, before calculating his tax, may deduct from his gross income the cost of raw materials actually contained in a finished product (that is, any goods bought at wholesale, substantially changed and sold at retail-not one merely consumed in the process of manufacture...

...The project, backed by many governments as well as private industry, is part of the follow-up to the UN World Food Conference...

...After completing his historical studies at Lvov State University in 1958, he became a high school teacher in his native district of Volyn, in the western Ukraine...

...Meanwhile, Kenya is receiving $60 million from the World Bank- financed by Britain, Canada and the United States-to increase livestock production and improve marketing facilities...

...And since it has been shown that the resting places of the tsetse fly constitute only a small fraction of its habitat, a 90 per cent reduction in the amount of insecticide generally used to combat it has been made possible through selective application without any loss in effectiveness...

...The essay was used to substantiate Moroz' defense at his November 1970 trial...

...Harvard Invitation Cambridge-Ukrainian historian Valentyn Moroz, imprisoned for all but nine months of the last nine years, has been invited to resume his scholarly work at Harvard's newly established Ukrainian Research Institute during the 1975-76 academic year...

...The only way to equitably untangle all the knots that have been tied into the tax code over the years is to throw it out completely and go back to start...

...The rabbits, for their own good, had been fed on a proprietary diet containing a compound called coccidiostat, consisting of the chemical sulphaquinoxaline and pyrimethamine...

...What follows is a hypothetical tax code, designed to foster honesty, treat citizens justly and free thousands of high-IQ tax specialists for more socially useful work...

...That advanced African cattle producer needs a wider marketing infrastructure and better services...

...At present prices, this represents a market value of at least $600 million...

...He vowed never to issue the recantation his accusers demanded, and continued to bait the KGB by pointing to his prominence, in contrast to his status in 1965 as "a nobody, an unknown history lecturer...

...Females living on the blood of the rabbits produced only a quarter of the normal number of offspring...

...and to Kenya at the opposite end of the continent, where cattle producers have established large and profitable disease-free regions meeting Western Europe's stringent standards for imported meat...

...They have also ignored a letter to General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev by Moscow physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, in his capacity as head of the dissident Human Rights Committee, urging Moroz' transfer to a milder facility...

...But the university's unprecedented invitation is not likely to reach the 39-year-old Moroz, now in solitary confinement at one of the Soviet Union's strictest prisons, located in Vladimir near Moscow...

...Such a reduction rate in the number of offspring, coupled with a short breeding season, could have dire effects on wild populations of tsetse flies...

...There is widespread agreement that something has to be done...

...it would get no assistance from Uncle Sam...

...Meanwhile, they have tended concurrent invitations to six other Ukrainian scholars who have been dismissed from their positions for "nationalist" or "Zionist" opinions.??Harvey Fireside April Thought New York-Income tax time is coming round again, and every adult American is being asked to obey a law few lawyers or certified public accountants understand...

...Whether Soviet officials will now commute the remainder of that sentence is uncertain...

...Before he could defend his thesis, though, he was arrested under Article 62 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code equivalent to the Russian Code's Article 70, accusing him of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda designed to undermine or weaken Soviet power...

...Similarly, a person who wished to devote a portion of his income to eleemosynary purposes would be free to do so, but without help from the government...

...Of course, a tax on gross income with no permissible deductions would disadvantage certain kinds of business, would eliminate one of the simplest antipoverty devices (the personal allowance), and could encourage job layoffs...

...the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is launching a gigantic project to make 2.7 million square miles of tropical Africa fit for cat-tle grazing...

...They further note that one offshoot of this activity has been increased attention to tick-borne diseases that also affect cattle in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Australia...

...The zone includes parts of all tropical African nations and could support 120 million head of cattle more than these countries arc now producing, for an additional total of 1.5 million tons of meat per year...

...They yearn for the good old days "when there was order," starve prisoners on meager daily diets, then have them shot "while trying to escape" and leave their corpses out on display as examples for the other inmates...

...Its success would turn hungry Africa into a net exporter to the increasingly meat-deficient world and earn much needed hard currency revenues for development at home...

...The project includes elements specifically designed to benefit traditional small livestock owners and to increase export earnings.??Thomas Land...