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...business staff has also been taking advantage of the thaw. With Special Correspondent John Scott, Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers and Moscow Bureau Chief John Shaw, I recently joined our nine international publishing and ad-sales directors for a six-day visit to Moscow and Leningrad. One purpose of our trip was to explore firsthand the prospects for trade between the Soviet Union and the West...
...official phrase was "relieved of duty")-Pyotr Shelest and Gennady Voronov-have been notable opponents of his diplomatic initiatives, as well as of some of his domestic efforts. Among the four men promoted -Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, KGB (secret police) Chief Yuri Andropov and Leningrad Party Secretary Grigory Romanov-at least two are expected to play large roles in helping Brezhnev's plans work...
...exiles' Cézannes, Picassos, Matisses, Gaugins and Van Goghs-356 paintings in all-were appropriated by the state and divided between the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad. The fortunes of these unrivaled hoards have fluctuated with politics. Stalin had them banished to the cellars as decadent Western formalism. After 1954, the collections were slowly reinstated, and now the Soviet Union has begun to use them as a cautiously played trump in the diplomatic game of cultural exchange...
...machinery for Soviet nickel over the next five years. That works out to a not overly impressive $8,000,000 a year. The only exchange that he has already concluded involved neither money nor commercial products but art works. He donated a Goya portrait to the Hermitage museum in Leningrad and received in return an abstract painting by Kasimir Malevich, whose work is in such deep disfavor among Soviet officials that it has not been exhibited in more than 40 years...
From the remote Buryat Autonomous Republic, the Chronicle reports the arrest of five Buddhist scholars charged with organizing a Buddhist religious group that was alleged, most improbably, to have Zionist ties. The paper also provided fresh details of the widespread riots in Lithuania last May (TIME, July 31). From Leningrad, the Chronicle identified secret police personnel of a prison psychiatric hospital where warders inject political prisoners with dangerous drugs...