Word: mikhail
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...longer in doubt. The Russians don't think so. Last month the party's Central Committee and the Soviet Council of Ministers ordered a major curriculum revision to be ready by 1970. Explaining why, Pravda this month published an unusually candid article by Russian Education Minister Mikhail Prokofiev, who charged that the vast Soviet school system is not only seriously deficient in science and math teaching, but is mired in a rigid "bookism" that makes learning a bore and produces an alarming dropout rate...
Whalen purportedly had several shopping-center contacts with a couple of Soviet embassy officials named Sergei Edemski and Mikhail A. Shumaev (code-named "Mike"). After Whalen had to retire because of a bad heart, he applied for a civilian job in sensitive Pentagon areas. He was rejected, much to the disappointment of Soviet espionage, according to the FBI. Whalen, who was fired from his park job in Fairfax County last month for some private espionage (he bugged a phone conversation between Mrs. Whalen and his boss), was arrested and released on $15,000 bail...
...Andrei Volkonsky, 33, the son of Prince Mikhail Volkonsky, studied in Paris, later at the Moscow Conservatory. A performance of one of his compositions in Leningrad in 1960 caused such an intramural scandal that no new work of his was played for five years. The silence was ended last spring with the premiere of a cantata, The Laments of Shchaza. Volkonsky composes in the twelve-tone style, but he is also a first-rate concert harpsichordist and a leader in the revival of baroque music in Russia...
...Congress as the Soviet Union's No. 1 leader: as party chief, he was elected unanimously to the top post in the new Politburo. As chief of government, Premier Aleksei Kosygin was named to the Politburo's No. 2 post. Into the No. 3 spot moved Mikhail Suslov, 63, the lean Stalinist ideologue, whose position is enhanced by the fact that he holds a key post in the important party Secretariat...
...their know-how and equipment to help Russia develop Siberia's great resources-at a profit, of course. The Soviets have sometimes seemed to encourage the Japanese, then back away. Last week 28 Russian economists and technicians went to Tokyo and sounded as if they actually meant business. Mikhail Nesterov, president of the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and head of the delegation, said, "Western Siberia has reserves of 40 billion tons of oil, 42 billion cubic meters of lumber, vast amounts of iron ore, coal and nonferrous metals, all waiting to be tapped." He invited the Japanese to suggest...