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Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin said that the U. S. S. R. would re-examine its aid commitments to North Vietnam as a result of the U. S. invasion. The Red Chinese government issued a statement calling the action a provocation against China as well as Southeast Asia...
Died. Patriarch Alexei, 92, head of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1945; in Moscow. Patriarch Alexei guided the Russian church during the postwar years as it came to terms with the atheistic Soviet state...
Peace on Earth set down briefly at Anchorage, Alaska, where about 1,000 volunteers repacked the cargo in 6.6-lb. bundles to meet Moscow's postal specifications. But when Perot arrived in Copenhagen, the message from Moscow was nyet. He even tried a desperate call to Russian Premier Alexei Kosygin at home, to no avail...
...GREAT BIG ENORMOUS TURNIP, by Alexei Tolstoy, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Watts; $3.95). "The mouse pulled the cat, the cat pulled the dog," etc., until mouse, cat, dog, granddaughter, old man and old woman get the enormous turnip out of the ground...
...started with a big night at Paris' plush Lido, where he got the VIP treatment from the club's showgirls. The next morning McDivitt hustled out to the Air Show, where he and fellow Apollo 9 Crewmen David Scott and Russell Schweiclcart showed Cosmonauts Vladimir Shakalov and Alexei Yeliseyev around the American exhibit. The proceedings started somewhat stiffly; then a bottle of bonded bourbon was broken out and things began to loosen up. By the time the revelers reached the Russian exhibit with its plentiful stock of vodka, they were saluting everything from Snoopy to space medicine. Toasted...