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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Eartha Kitt guest-stars as a contortionist who lends her improbable talents to the Impossible Missions Force in an effort to catch a defector with nuclear secrets...
...Swiss pride themselves on discreetly welcoming even the most notorious guest, but even they were hard put last week to keep their cool. Into their midst dropped perhaps the biggest defector ever to leave the Soviet Union, Stalin's daughter Svetlana. That was bad enough, but it was nothing compared with the force of 200 reporters and TV cameramen that fanned across the country in search of Svetlana, to whom the Swiss gave a visa and the promise of privacy. While Swiss detectives plotted the newsmen's progress like generals keeping tabs on enemy guerrillas, the international press...
Before the week was out, the short, slightly dowdy defector, now 41, had become a major international incident. In Moscow, where Svetlana left a 21-year-old son and a 15-year-old daughter, Kremlin officials stewed angrily, kept any mention of the defection out of the official press and radio. In Washington, the State Department was just as embarrassed, fearing that the incident would jeopardize its chances for better relations with Russia and interfere with delicate discussions on Viet Nam and the pending treaties on nuclear proliferation and consular exchange...
...Viet Cong Defector...
Object of the Game: to be the first player to move your pawn-supposedly a Viet Cong defector-from either of the two starting squares (1) to the Open Arms defection centers...