Russian Editors Will Finish Visit In TV Interview

Observant and polite but studiously non-committal, six Russian "student editors" yesterday continued their five-day stay in the Boston area with a call on the Governor and some sight-seeing. Today's round of visits includes an appearance on WGBH-TV this evening at 6:30.

On Wednesday, Radcliffe girls helped break up the formality of more "official" stops in their itinerary. After a dinner in Holmes Hall, the six editors took turns riding around the Radcliffe quad on a Vespa and sang folk songs. They diplomatically declined an invitation to sing the "Internationale," however, describing it as "musically too difficult."

Dinner conversation had centered around questions about Russian women, whom the visitors described with some pride as very often good athletes.

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Earlier in the day, Simmons students had devoted part of their press conference to similar questions. Asked if he had noticed any differences between American and Russian girls, Anatoly Valyuzhenich, 31, Editor of the Russian edition of World Student News, hesitated and then passed around portraits of his wife, an attractive brunette. He suggested that the girls could best decide for themselves.

Although eager to oblige with information about the Soviet educational system and similar topics, the six editors became more reserved as questions got more controversial. While visiting the CRIMSON Tuesday evening, Valyuzhenich was asked about the workings of a "smokritika"--the Soviet intellectual's conception of self-criticism and restraint on issues considered "unconstructive."

He presented orthodox literary judgments in dismissing as a "bad writer" Russia's Vladimir Dudintsev, whose recent novel Not by Bread Alone revealed the seamy side of Soviet bureaucracy.