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...tumbled Wladyslaw Gomulka from power after 14 years as First Secretary of his nation's Communist Party. From comrades on all levels, fraternal messages of support poured into Warsaw for his successor: Edward Gierek, 57, the tall, burly boss of the Silesian mining area. Russia's Leonid Brezhnev hailed his new opposite number in Poland as "a sincere friend of the Soviet Union and a staunch international Communist." Germany's gruff old Walter Ulbricht, who has opposed recent Polish efforts at détente, proposed "close comradely ties." From all parts of Poland-and from almost...
...crank out their predictions for the year ahead. Few take them very seriously, and judging by the 1970 performance, that is just as well. There were some outstanding goofs. Britain's Astrologer Maurice Woodruff predicted that Ronald Reagan would not be reelected. In Italy, Astaroth foresaw that Leonid Brezhnev would be ousted last spring and later murdered. In the U.S., Sybil Leek, self-styled queen of witches, revealed that in October, Richard Nixon would be caught up in a saucy sex scandal that would raise the nation's eyebrows...
...reform plan in the East bloc is whether it passes muster with the Kremlin. Since Hungary is embarked on an economic reform that in some respects is similar to Prague's ill-fated experiment, Hungarians and visitors alike were eager to hear what Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev would say about the Budapest plan of instituting private-enterprise incentives within a Communist-controlled society. His verdict: thumbs up. As long as the Communist Party retains its supremacy in all aspects of the country's life, he said, "the Hungarian party's approach meets with the full understanding...
...Brezhnev's blessing meant that Hungary could press on with its New Economic Mechanism, which other Eastern European countries are watching closely to see how far they can go in reducing direct and often stifling party controls on the economy...
Ominous Outlook. In granting the award, the Swedish Academy may well have set in motion a showdown that will pit the Soviet regime of Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin against a lone and indomitable man who has become a hero of Russia's growing dissident movement and a symbol to those of his countrymen who yearn for greater artistic freedom. Even as Solzhenitsyn, 51, and his wife Natalya celebrated the award with friends at a party outside Moscow in the little wooden dacha of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, hard-lining Soviet literary bureaucrats were preparing an attack on him. Under...