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Besides Athenagoras, two other absent eminences dominated the deliberations. One was Pope John XXIII, whose nine years' residence in Istanbul as apostolic delegate has made him exceptionally knowledgeable about Eastern Orthodoxy and sympathetic to it. The other was Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, represented by Archbishop Nikodemus, 32, the youngest bishop in the Russian Church...
...behind him on the cover: Platon Morozov, Zorin's No. 2 man at the U.N. (with earphone), Alexei Nesterenko, the U.N. Soviet mission's political counselor...
Western churchmen last week had striking new evidence that Moscow's Patriarch Alexei has far more leverage against the government - and willingness to use it -than most Westerners realize. The latest issue of the Journal of the Moscow Pa triarchate carries the terse announcement that the Holy Synod has excommunicated a prominent professor of theology at Leningrad Theological Academy, Archpriest Alexander Ossipov, as well as Archpriest Paul Darmansky, Father Nicolai Spassky, and "other servants of the Church" for having "publicly blasphemed the Name of God" and having "published against their church articles or pamphlets issued by newspapers...
...progressed through France's heavily leftist south, local Communists, augmented by busloads of comrades from afar, took over key positions along his route and at prearranged signals waved red flags and chanted admiring slogans. In Marseille, where the shouts were loudest, Khrushchev Son-in-Law (and Izvestia Editor) Alexei Adzhubei admiringly remarked to Soviet Propaganda Boss Leonid Ilyichev: "Comrade, you always handle the Agitprop well!" Spiking the Canon. Clicking away insatiably, Soviet cameramen captured scenes of enthusiasm designed to convince movie audiences behind the Iron Curtain that all France had embraced Nikita...
...owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat and pillbox hat, her arms full of orchids. The rest of the family trooped in afterward-Daughters Julia, Rada and Elena, Son Sergei and Son-in-Law Alexei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia. It was the first time since 1896 that a Russian ruler had visited Paris. It turned out that Khrushchev's target was the same as Czar Nicholas II's-Germany...