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...Fortnight ago, the day before he was scheduled to return to Moscow, Nosenko told colleagues he was going off for lunch at a downtown restaurant. When he failed to return next morning, frantic Soviet officials ordered all the remaining Russians at the hotel into a delegation compound and stripped Nosenko's room of all his personal effects. They seemed particularly agitated when they could not find his valise. At last, the Russians called in the Swiss police. In vain, the cops checked Switzerland's hospitals, morgues, hotels, railroad stations, airports and border outposts. Nosenko had totally vanished...
Died. Ewald Peters, 49, West Germany's chief of personal security, responsible for the safety of Chancellors Adenauer and Erhard from 1960 until his arrest, fortnight ago, on charges of having participated in mass executions of Jews in the Ukraine in 1942 and 1943; by his own hand (hanged with a bed sheet); in a Bonn prison cell. In hearings after his arrest and in letters he left behind, Peters repeatedly claimed innocence; state prosecutors have now marked the case "closed...
...Congo's most serious flare-up since Katanga's stubborn secession finally was crushed a year ago, this latest bloodbath suddenly erupted in early January in Kwilu province, 250 miles east of Leopoldville. Fortnight ago, roving gangs of youths hacked to death three Belgian Roman Catholic priests-one of them bedridden. Directed by Peking-trained Pierre Mulele, onetime Education Minister under the late, left-leaning Patrice Lumumba, the terrorists often donned war paint, loincloths and crude red helmets, cried "Moscow!" and "Russia!" as they burned and looted. Scores of black local officials have been methodically butchered. Four village...
Shown on the opposite page are the works of two potentates of modern art which within the last fortnight won two of modern art's richest prizes. Neither award surprised the art world, since both artists are well known and transcendently deserving. But if no eyebrows were raised over the choices, a good many doubts have been raised this year over the theory and practice of art competitions...
...weeks ago and pronounced resale price maintenance "incompatible with our objective of encouraging effective competition and keeping down costs and prices." Despite lingering Tory doubts, Prime Minister Douglas-Home stood firmly behind Heath, who promised that a bill would be ready for Parliament's consideration within a fortnight. "It cannot be in the interests of the consumer," said Douglas-Home, "to peg prices at artificially high levels...