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Personality & Family. Mikoyan is a fluent talker (but speaks little English), likes dancing, cooking Armenian dishes and horseback riding, is more amiable-or at least more ingratiating -than most Soviet chieftains. After three decades as a foreign trade specialist, and numerous trips abroad, he is also more knowledgeable about the West than most of his fellow commissars. "Unlike the others," a veteran Western diplomat says of Mikoyan, "he has a rational image of the U.S." Mikoyan has four children, numerous grandchildren. His brother Artem is one of the U.S.S.R.'s top airplane designers (the MI in MIG stands...
Spirits were abroad on New Year's Eve along the beaches around Rio de Janeiro. The five-mile crescent of Copacabana and the other Rio beaches blazed with the ritual candles of some 600,000 devotees of Brazil's fastest-growing cult: "spiritism." Altars were set up everywhere in the sand, heaped with fetishes and food offerings, bottles of beer and the rotgut alcohol known as cachaça. Around the altars, while drums pounded faster and faster, men, women and children danced and shouted, stomped and babbled. Yemanjá, goddess of the sea, was the special object...
Recalling those bitter days of uphill struggle, De Gaulle himself has written: "I was starting from scratch. In France, no following and no reputation. Abroad, neither credit nor standing. But this very destitution showed me my line of conduct. It was by adopting without compromise the cause of the national recovery that I could acquire authority. At this moment, the worst in her history, it was for me to assume the burden of France." This attitude "was to dictate my bearing and to impose upon my personality an attitude I could never again change...
...public trial, a defense lawyer, and a chance to appeal the verdict. It cuts prison sentences for "ordinary" crimes from 25 to 10 years, and to 15 years for exceptionally severe offenses. It raises the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 16. It scraps such punishments as exile abroad, recently proposed for Nobel Novelist Boris Pasternak. But capital punishment stays on the books, and repeaters or hardened criminals lose all rights to early parole. Death by shooting continues for treason (including "flight abroad or refusal to return to the U.S.S.R. from abroad...
DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND, from which U.S. lends to spur private enterprises abroad, has suffered severe pruning in battle of budget. With backlog of about $1.5 billion in loan requests from all parts of world, fund had hopes for $1 billion appropriation in next fiscal year. But Administration reluctantly cut figure to $700 million, and Congress is expected to trim more...