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Premature Gesture. Last week Berenson received the largest number of votes in his division for the N.H.L.'s first East-West All-Star Game on Jan. 21. Though he is leading the division in scoring, he rated the honor simply on the basis of one remarkable performance against the Philadelphia Flyers earlier this season. After scoring one goal in the first period, he netted two more in the second period to turn a hat trick for the first time in his N.H.L. career. "I dove into the net for that puck to save it as a memento," he recalls...
...world. Soviet citizens have learned from foreign radio-much more than from their own news sources-of the rising cries of dissent from their country's intellectuals. The Voice of America, for example, has broadcast full versions of Physicist Andrei Sakharov's extraordinary outline for an East-West detente (which is critical of both U.S. and Soviet current policy) and Major General Pyotr Grigorenko's recent anti-Kremlin statements...
...Foundation and former national security adviser to Presidents Johnson and Kennedy, and Dzher-man Gvishiani, son-in-law of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and a ranking member of the state committee for science and technology. The ostensible reason for the get-together was to discuss the creation of an East-West Institute, perhaps to be located in the Austrian capital, that would serve as a site for meetings between statesmen and scholars from all over...
...Czechoslovakia had shattered all illusions of an imminent accommodation with the Russians. Gone were the pleasant prospects of further military cutbacks in the budgets of member countries or of a drawdown in force levels. In the wastebasket were the blueprints for converting NATO into a nonmilitary instrument of East-West bridge building. The situation that now faced the alliance was bluntly put by NATO Supreme Commander Lyman Lemnitzer, who had doubted détente and disapproved of the military dilution of NATO all along. The ten Soviet divisions that Russia has moved permanently into Czechoslovakia have "significantly altered" the balance...
...security chief and promised to send the forgetful official to some Turkish equivalent of Siberia. That night at dinner, President Cevdet Sunay gently reminded his guest that Turkey intended to remain a staunch member of NATO. Formerly, he said, Turkey had worked as hard as France for an East-West détente, but the occupation of Czechoslovakia had "unfortunately shown us that our optimism was too great...