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...reader. Richard Ullman's Intervention and the War, a history of Anglo-Soviet relations from November 1917 to November 1918, is such a drama--one whose characters include British diplomats, Japanese generals, Czech troops and Bolshevik leaders. Its setting stretches from London to Tokyo, from Archangel to Baku...
...years ago, all this was impossible, for Russia produced barely enough oil for itself. But now, with expansion of the old Baku fields and opening of the vast new deposits east of the Volga, Soviet output has soared to an annual 148 million tons, next only to the U.S. (368 million tons) and Venezuela (149 million tons). From this gushing wealth comes the surplus pumped into export channels by Soyuzneftexport, Russia's oil marketing agency, which hopes to break the world monopoly of the eight Western "majors" with alluring sales stunts...
Soon a band struck up lively dance music in the adjoining Vladimir Hall. First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, that scowling Old Bolshevik who helped the Soviets take over in Baku, led off with an Armenian solo. Then blonde Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, only woman on the top Presidium, danced decorously out on the arm of President Leonid Brezhnev. Khrushchev, after watching a while from a stairway, walked off to the Winter Garden with West German Ambassador Hans Kroll, whose government a few hours earlier had signed a treaty with the Soviet Union in Bonn, increasing their trade...
Next day they kicked out Robert Christner, 27, a Russian-speaking U.S. tourist who wore a "suspicious-looking" money belt, took pictures of the harbor in Baku and incautiously gave chance Russian acquaintances his copy of Doctor Zhivago and a couple of New York newspapers. The day after that, police expelled James Shultz, 21, an Otis, Kans. boy on a Y.M.C.A. tour. Komsomolskaya Pravda said that Shultz had met in Kiev "a ras cal ready to sell his honor for foreign rags," had given him three Bibles as well as some clothes. ("I don't know of anything...
...West Berlin. Only a month before, sauntering through the Rambouillet gardens with the visiting Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle had concluded that Nikita was not going to press too hard at the summit. But five days after Dillon's speech, Khrushchev made a speech at the oil town of Baku, rattling his rockets, reviving his threats on Berlin...