Moscow, 3:00 P.M. Ulica Vesnina. From the balcony of a run-down building in Arbatskaja the Italian Embassy's flag flies. In front, circulating among KGB agents and television cameras, a few journalists and cameramen await the event. A few minutes pass and the wind fills out the banners which Evgenya, Sasha, Dmitry, Artyom, Lena and the others are holding fast, and high, so that they can be seen by all. "For Correct Information, also in the West" and "Spain and Italy: No to the Manipulation of Information", the symbol of GANDHI and other slogans printed during the previous night are photographed by cameramen and photographers. Nickolaij Kramov asks to be received by Ambassador Salleo--who is not available, and who instead through the locked gates inside of which are Italian military police, sends out the Italian Consul Colombo with whom Salleo exchanges a few words and consigns the letter of protest. The Consul receives it with thanks, and assures him that he will see to it that it reaches Salleo.

Among the flashes of the photographers' cameras and questions by journalists, ten minutes pass, closely controlled by the KGB. Then the banners are folded up again and the demonstration moves on to the Spanish Embassy.

The Italian journalists present in Moscow, who had been personally informed, were not present, despite their promises to cover the demonstration.

Nothing happened. It was as if the demonstration had been held in Rome, or not at all. The Radical activists can hardly believe it, but say that things will be different at the Spanish Embassy.

Gorbaciov is coming to Italy in November and doesn't want any "SKANDALS".

Ulica Gercena. 4:00 P.M.. The atmosphere is different. Upon arriving, we see the buses of Special Services in combat dress. In front of the gate groups of militiamen and KGB agents in plain clothes are grouped, ready to intervene. In fact, after barely two minutes have passed, and the banners just unfurled, the men in gray intervene.

One after another, Evgenja Debrjanskaja, Alexsander Pronozin, Lena Tjapkina, Dmitrj Ruvinskj, Stanislav Tomenko, Artjom Badenkov are taken away and put into one of the buses. In the meantime, Kramov is at the entrance explaining the reasons for the demonstration to two embassy employees and delivers the letter addressed to the ambassador--who, predictably, is nowhere in sight. A few minutes later, Kramov is also arrested. The special services drag him down the stairs and push him into the bus. I attempt to accompany him, but am prevented from doing so. I am a foreigner and the rules this time allow for exception...I follow them a bit and then attempt to find out where they have been taken.

A few hours later, I learn where the militia station is where they are being held. I attempt to go there, but do not succeed. I also learn that they will be tried at 9:00 A.M. by the District Court of Kreasnopresnenskj.

After a night spent in jail, the trial is held: for Evgenja, there is a fine of 1,000 roubles; the others fined range from 150 to 350 roubles--which is from one to six months' salary and obviously practically impossible to pay. Radical Radio in Italy requests all its listeners to commit themselves, also with contributions, to support the actions in the Soviet Union.

In Prague, around twenty Czechoslovaks, many of whom were members of the RP, after having demonstrated before the Italian Embassy, were detained by agents in front of the Spanish Embassy. Three RP activists, Jiri Machacek, John Bok, and Alexander Blasek, were violently pushed into a car and taken off to the police station. Olivier Dupuis, RP Federal Secretary witnessed the arrests. Those arrested were released this morning.

Present at the BUDAPEST demonstration were, among others, members of the Federal Council, Ferenc Parcz (Hungarian), Massimo Lensi (Italian) and Vito Cezmadiski (Croat).

Present in Warsaw were a few dozen persons, including Anna Niedzwiescka and Marek Krukowski, members of the RP Federal Council, Sandro Ottoni RP Federal Secretary.

In Madrid, the demonstrators included police inspector Jose' Manuel Sanchez Garcia and journalist Vitoria Sendon, head of the "Lista Antiprohibicionista sobre Droga" in the Spanish elections of October 29. The appointment was in front of the main entrance of the "Torrespana" building of RTVE (Spanish Radio Television). Also present--among the founders of the International Antiprohibitionist League--were Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Marco Taradash and Anthony Henmann (Brazilian).