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...young mother of two small children. Ten days after Warsaw Pact armies rumbled into Czechoslovakia. Vlasta's husband Bedrich, an electrician and occasional truck driver in Decin, bundled the couple's children into the family car and defected to the West. He eventually settled with his émigré mother in Yucaipa, Calif., (pop. 26,000) and died of lung cancer not long after. Vlasta plunged into a lonely, uphill custody battle for her son and daughter. The case is still pending in a San Bernardino courtroom, and could easily snowball into a major East-West propaganda confrontation...
...headache for both American officials and Yugoslav security men, as Tito spends 61 days traveling from Washington to the space center at Houston and finally to the Los Angeles area, will be to protect him from embarrassing demonstrations and even violence by members of extremist Yugoslav émigré groups. Of the estimated 1.5 million Americans of Yugoslav origin, only a few hundred belong to fanatical Tito-baiting political organizations, some with direct spiritual links to Hitler. Still, as Premier Aleksei Kosygin's close call in Ottawa last week demonstrates, the security problem is not merely a matter...
Apart from such matters, there remains the remoteness of Mary's subject and theme. A 1924 Berlin boardinghouse full of colorful Russian émigrés simply does not have the broad appeal of Hotel. And your hero, who has been forced to flee Russia, where he apparently enjoyed a privileged life, is not likely to attract much sympathy today...
...from the reach of authority and egalitarian ideals, hatred and cruelty flourished unchecked. French émigrés from Guadaloupe and Martinique came to Trinidad with slaves and a system of savage punishment. Blacks had their noses split and their ears slashed off for minor offenses. Hangings, quarterings and decapitations were common occurrences. A simple method of extracting information was to truss up a suspect in a particularly unnatural position and then suspend him so that his weight was supported where the ball of his foot met a wooden stake...
...hope of a few Russian thinkers; the idea if not the term has been a persistent but chimerical dream in the West for decades. During World War II, when the Soviet Union was cast as an ally of Western democracies, convergence was widely propagated by a pair of émigré Russian sociologists, Nikolai Timasheff of Fordham and the late Pitirim Sorokin of Harvard. Both professors theorized that the Soviet Union would eventually develop into a less repressive and more democratic society as it progressed economically...