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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms of the Sino-Soviet propaganda war, Louis' book is so inflammatory that it could hardly have been published unless he had obtained approval for it at a very high level. The work's timing is surely not coincidental. The Chinese invasion of Viet Nam last February plunged Sino-Soviet relations to a new low, and the U.S. normalization of ties with China revived Moscow's anxiety about a possible Peking-Washington rapprochement, one of the events predicted in Amalrik's Will the Soviet Union Survive...
...cellar, suggests a more generous source of income than journalism. Yet Louis heatedly denies any KGB connection and last week professed dismay at the Salisbury introduction. He had agreed to having Salisbury write one, then was upset on reading the result. He tried to have it removed from the book but was reminded that his contract gave him no such right. "At the very least, it is impolite," he complained to TIME'S Bruce Nelan. "They would not do this to an American author, so why do it to a Russian...
Said Louis: "I was trying to present a Russian way of thinking. In a book like this you have to take sides. I couldn't be an impartial observer." Certainly no one ever accused Louis of that...
DIED. Thomas K. Scherman, 62, founder, musical director and chief sponsor of the Little Orchestra Society throughout its 27 years; of heart failure; in New York City. Son of the founder of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Scherman was a prodigy who read music before words, studied with Otto Klemperer, and used his personal wealth to create his own half-size orchestra. Though considered a second-rate conductor, Scherman was admired as an explorer of new music and rediscoverer of such forgotten compositions as Berlioz's L 'Enfance du Christ. He premiered more than 100 orchestral works...
...known Kissinger for years and had been a student of China since his World War II days as a cryptographer in the Pacific. He had been to the country five times before, and over the years had turned out a stream of China-related columns and one book, The Chinese Difference (1973). "It's still pretty good," says Kraft. "I didn't go ape on the Chinese or the new Maoist man or anything like that...