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...restrictions. Not only does Moscow lack the hard currency for large-scale purchases of Western equipment, but it also is pumping big amounts ($10 billion during 1970-75) into the development of its own computer industry, which has an estimated 80 plants employing 300,000 people. One Western expert, Bohdan Szuprowicz, a Polish-born authority on Soviet computers who advises major U.S. companies, sees signs that Moscow has been assembling only a sample of the most advanced Western computers it is permitted to buy as patterns for its own models. Says he: "It appears as if someone behind the scenes...
...Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, Ukranian-born director of Geneva's respected Center of Industrial Studies and a convinced European, argues that the flow toward unification is "irreversible." The Common Market may turn out not to be the main instrument of unity, he concedes. Other concerns, particularly the environment, will have a role in forcing the Europeans to make common cause. Eventually, Hawrylyshyn predicts, Western Europe might evolve into "a loose federation along, let's say, the Swiss pattern." NATO will fade; Eastern Europe and the West "will draw closer together, but remain on different wave lengths...
...Safer World. Considering the makeup of the court, it is difficult to see what supporters of the Connally Amendment are afraid of. The current President of the World Court, Poland's Bohdan Winiarski, is nominally a Communist, but his is only one vote out of 15, and his term as President expires next February. The only other Communist member is a judge from Russia. Non-Communist nations represented are the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, Greece, the United Arab Republic, Japan, Nationalist China, Australia, Mexico, Peru, Panama, Argentina. In February, the World Court's members from Panama and Argentina...
...boys studied in Italy and England, finally came to the U.S., where Jacek completed his architectural studies and later taught at Harvard. The youthful Von Hennebergs, 34 and 30, set up shop in Cambridge, Mass. Last January, with their associate, another Polish refugee, Bohdan Hryniewicz, 27, they entered an international competition, sponsored by Poland's Committee for the Reconstruction of Warsaw, to design a multistory apartment building for low-income families. Said Witold: "The competition was a plebiscite in which architects together with technical and economic specialists would freely decide how to build multistory apartment buildings under Polish conditions...
...these Assembly-elected judges: Charles De Visscher (Belgium), J. Philadelpho de Barros e Azevedo (Brazil), Sir Arnold D. McNair (Britain), John E. Read (Canada), Hsu Mo (China), Alejandro Alvarez (Chile), Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha (Egypt), J. Gustavo Guerrero (El Salvador), Jules Basdevant (France), Fabela Alfaro (Mexico), Helge Klaestad (Norway), Bohdan Winiarski (Poland), Sergei B. Krylov (Russia), Green H. Hackworth (U.S.), Milovan Zoricich (Yugoslavia...