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...airport last week demonstrated a classic example of the U.S. quandary in dealing with neutrals (see box). U.S. Assistant Secretary of State J. Graham Parsons flew into the Laotian capital and was met by a single protocol officer and a handful of U.S. newsmen. Next day, Soviet Ambassador Aleksandr Abramov stepped from his plane to be greeted by a U.S.-trained honor guard and a line of kneeling girls in sarongs who offered him silver bowls heaped with flowers. Also amiably on hand to greet the Russian: slim Captain Kong Le, Laos' current hero, whose military coup in August...
...arms, said Ben-Gurion, if the U.S. failed to provide them, the Israelis might be forced to look elsewhere for them-presumably Russia. Soviet Ambassador Abramov spent part of last week in close conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Sharett. The meeting, said a government spokesman darkly, was "of prime importance...
About life in Soviet Russia, none of the artists, who range in age from 19 to 45, has much to say. Several have relatives there. Says Anatoly Abramov, once a Soviet architect: "For different reasons and in different ways, we had come to a deeply religious time. We felt we could express our feelings best through the icon...
...York has been a Cossack village officially since 1931," said its taxi-driving local Ataman, Cossack Colonel Peter Fedorovitch Abramov, who somehow manages to send his daughter to Hunter College, his son to City College. "It is very silly for the Press to mention me, as I am not a world leader. Our last was Ataman Bogayevsky who died in Paris last October, necessitating this election. The unit of Cossack life for 400 years has been the 'village' and it was Ataman Bogayevsky who made New York a Cossack village...
...ballots arriving from Africa, Australia and such remote South American outposts as the battle-scarred Gran Chaco, reported Cossack Count Michael Grabbe leading in the world election for Ataman. Trailing was the only U. S. candidate, General Peter Kharitonovitch Popov, now chef in a Boston restaurant. Said Manhattan Ataman Abramov: "Even when we drive taxicabs instead of riding wild horses like our great hero of long ago, Taras Bulba, we don't change-We are still Cossacks...