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...Etchmiadzin in Soviet Armenia, for two days of talks with Vazgen I, Supreme Catholicos of the Armenian Church, within view of Mt. Ararat, one of the traditional sites of the landing place of Noah's Ark. There were banquets and church services, meetings with Patriarch Alexis and Metropolitan Nikolai (Russian Orthodoxy's foreign expert), talks with leaders of the Russian Baptists (who claim a membership of 3,000,000) and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic States...
...Restaurant employees," said the magazine Literature and Life, "must be made to realize that they forfeit their human dignity by accepting tips, which are an insult to those who give and those who take." Asked whether there was one waiter in Moscow who would turn down a tip nowadays, Nikolai Fedorovich Zavyalov, head of the Moscow Restaurant Trust, sighed: "Not one." Zavyalov confessed that a recent experiment of adding on a 4% service charge in Moscow restaurants (6% at the posh Praga) had failed to stop the under-the-teacup tribute...
Speaking to a group of undergraduate leaders last week, Nikolai Voschchinin, a member of the visiting Soviet Union delegation, said jokingly, "the diplomatic corps in your country has been increased by 12 while we're visiting you, because each of us is a 'diplomat'--a 'diplomat' to increase understanding between our two nations...
Twelve Russian "students" yesterday continued their frenetic tour of Cambridge, as they met with the Deans, attended conferences and toured the College area. "The tempo in the United States is very fast," group leader Nikolai Voshchinin commented at the news conference, and the group's pace certainly proved his statement...
Since 1955, when Russia's Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin swept into Kabul after a whirlwind tour of India, the Afghan government has developed a talent for taking with both hands from both sides in the cold war. From Russia come military instructors, heavy tanks, MIG fighter planes and Ilyushin jet bombers. To Russia go hundreds of young Afghans for training as pilots and mechanics. In the country's northern provinces, Soviet aid is transforming potholed Afghan roads into paved superhighways, including one that runs from the Russian railheads and ports on the Oxus River 390 miles south...