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...publishers of Däniken's book deleted his references to the extraterrestrial origins of Christianity, but a Soviet scholar has attacked the subject head-on According to an angry Izvestia editorial, Philologist Vyacheslav Zaitsev of the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences has not only proposed the theory that Christ was a cosmonaut but also that the star of Bethlehem was his rocket A being from a higher civilization ("My Kingdom is not of this world"), Christ came to bring advanced social ideas of love, charity and democracy to a slave-society world. He was immune to the human death...
...ideological attack yet in the 9½-year-old Sino-Soviet dispute, the Russians finally gave up all pretense of trying to effect a reconciliation with their Asian comrades. They have now brusquely read them out of the international brotherhood. "The Communist Party of China is no more," wrote Izvestia. "The Maoist rally is actually the first congress of a new organization which has nothing in common with the Communist Party of China or with international Communism...
...enter negotiations with the East Germans. Schütz sent a representative into East Berlin to open the talks. His envoy returned disappointed. The East Germans demanded the cancellation of the Federal Assembly before any other issue could even be discussed. Signaling a switch in the Soviet position, Izvestia bluntly asserted that West Germans could expect no reciprocity for removing the Federal Assembly from West Berlin...
Organic Link. The institute's working hypothesis was probably summed up by Arbatov in his only published work as I.A.S. director-a review in the government newspaper Izvestia of the Brookings Institution's Agenda for the Nation. Said Arbatov: "One discovers in this book what is probably one of the basic problems of the U.S. today-the organic link between internal difficulties that have reached an unprecedented height and the foreign policy course that Washington pursues...
Though the Soviets sent 200,000 soldiers into Czechoslovakia only five months ago, they professed outrage at the comparatively modest influx of 12,000 U.S. troopers. Tass, the Soviet news agency, attacked Reforger I as "a new provocative plot." Elaborating on that theme, Izvestia, Moscow's evening newspaper, warned that "the new military demonstration is directed at increasing tension in Europe." What bothers the Soviets most of all is that the war game will be held in Bavaria at the NATO maneuver site of Grafenwöhr -located only 30 miles from the Czechoslovak border...