Word: aleksandre
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...Russian eyes first beheld America, did a ship from the imperial navy enter New Archangel harbor, and then only with mischief in mind. Its captain, one Vasilii Golovnin, coveted the lucrative colony, which was in the hands of businessmen. In time, the navy pulled its rank and took control. Aleksandr Baranov, resident manager for 27 years, was fired without honors or pension...
...Greek Cypriots, but more recently they seemed to sympathize with the Turks, their historic enemies, in the Cyprus dispute, and Podgorny was all smiles and promises. "You ask, and we give you everything," he said, "investments, financing and Cyprus support." Scarcely a month before, another Presidium luminary, Aleksandr Shelepin, had breezed into Cairo to reassure Nasser that the new brass would honor Nikita's commitment for $280 million in credit to fuel Egypt's new five-year plan. Moscow in recent weeks has been sidling up to Pakistan too, using as bait support against India over Kashmir...
Then, throwing a soulful glance at visiting Soviet Troubleshooter Aleksandr Shelepin, Nasser coyly dropped his punch line: "We shall not sell our independence for 30, 40 or even 50 million pounds." The price was indubitably high, but Shelepin must have got the message...
...first Moser seemed somewhat bewildered by the uproar. But he quickly recovered his poise, renewed the argument in a face-to-face showdown with the Russians. Soviet Editor Aleksandr Chakovsky, one of the party, protested-but Moser had already ticketed Chakovsky as an ex-agent of the Russian secret police. "I decided the attitude should be on the tough side of neutral," Moser summed...
...ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH SHELEPIN, 46, hard-eyed ex-boss of the secret police, somewhat "sanitized" since Stalin's days, who remains in many ways Russia's top cop. His was the most remarkable of the new promotions, since he leapfrogged over the heads of oldtimers waiting around for membership to become the youngest member of the party Presidium. A persuasive pragmatist, Shelepin talked 350,000 Russian youths into volunteering for work in the virgin lands, served as Nikita's iceman when Khrushchev decided to re-refrigerate the thaw in Soviet art and literature two years-ago. Significantly, Shelepin...