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...pressured into emigrating (TIME, June 19). However, a hard core of activists is obviously determined to keep the movement alive. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, father of the Russian hydrogen bomb and a leading critic of the current regime, last week released a letter he had written to Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, protesting the increase of "persecution for political and ideological reasons...
...emphasis on bar and brothel belies the seriousness of the matters at stake. If the world is ever to achieve peaceful development, it will come more through the success of ventures like UNCTAD than through Nixon-Brezhnev talks. Until international trade relations have been established on an equitable basis, the tragedies of Viet Nam and Bangladesh will go on repeating themselves. A more incisive analysis of UNCTAD's failure would have been appreciated...
...fill-in-the-blank portion of our test. Pencils ready? If Rich ard Nixon gives Leonid Brezhnev a Cadillac, then the Soviet leader should give the President a . Well, what? What socialist product evokes the Communist system the way a Cadillac does U.S. capitalism? A personal, hand-controlled Sputnik? A collective farm...
...destroyed the unity of the Marxist faith. But last week, in a dramatic culmination of a historic reversal of Soviet policy, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito was treated to a hero's welcome in Moscow. At a state dinner in Tito's honor, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev did not even allude to the earlier disagreements that led to the 1948 break between Stalin and Tito. Instead, Brezhnev praised Tito for "your friendly attitude toward our country." In perhaps the most ironic turnabout of all, Tito, who reached 80 last month, was awarded the Order of Lenin...
...Communist countries. He has licensed Intertower, a joint venture of Cyrus Eaton Jr. and Occidental Petroleum, to put up 36 inns in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia; in most cases, the governments will own the inns. Encouraged by the talk of expanded East-West trade that surrounded the Nixon-Brezhnev summit, Wilson plans to travel to Moscow, probably in July, to sound out authorities about putting up motels in the Soviet Union. Says William Stratton, a Holiday Inns franchise director: "We haven't got to Antarctica yet, but who knows...