Word: belorussian
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...biggest delegations, those of the U.S. and China, combined? Because, Washington bluntly charged last week, many of the supposed Soviet diplomats are really spies. The accusation was contained in an equally blunt order: over the next two years, Moscow's three missions (two officially represent the Ukrainian and Belorussian Soviet Republics) must reduce their staffs from a present total of 275 to 170. The Soviets may choose who stays and who goes; if they do not, the U.S. will make the decision by denying diplomatic visas...
Puzzled, F. Polyak, the factory director, contacted the Moscow railway department, through whose territory the missing freight should have passed. No luck. Next, Polyak asked the South Western railway directorate, only to be told to get in touch with its Belorussian equivalent. The reply there: check with Moscow. Finally, Polyak queried the central search section of the Rail Ministry itself. He was informed that "it was not possible to do anything" because the shipment documents had routinely been destroyed after a year. No matter that the train had left less than a year before. Said Pravda: "Even Sherlock Holmes from...
Maybe in popularity. Pesnyary is the U.S.S.R.'s best-known attraction on record and in concert. The group sings soupy, over-orchestrated versions of Belorussian folk tunes and looks like a polka band that got lost on the way to a beer bust. Still, Pesnyary is most prominent in a field that includes groups like Optimisty (the Optimists) and Vesyoliye Rebyata (the Happy Fellows). The titles suggest what the material is like: How Wonderful the World Is!, It Isn't Your Flowers That I Love and I'll Take You Away to the Tundra. Even newer, rock...
Tolling Bells. After the tough arms negotiations, Nixon flew to the Belorussian capital of Minsk to take part in ceremonies mourning the destruction of the region by the Nazis 30 years ago. In the village of Khatyn, standing before a huge black granite statue of a gaunt man holding his dead son in his arms, the President said quietly: "This is very, very moving...
From time to time a Stalin purge victim turns up quietly in Moscow, but last week was the first occasion one was received with bands playing and flags flying. As the train bearing Poland's First Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka pulled into Moscow's Belorussian station, a curious crowd pressed at the barriers for a glimpse of the man Stalin had jailed as a suspected "Titoist" in 1951 and whose recent rehabilitation had caused Stalin's successors much concern. Only a month ago First Party Secretary Khrushchev, flying in to Warsaw, had brushed Gomulka's hand...