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...been accepted earlier and had graduated at the top of his high school class. Recently he was fired from a menial job in the computer center of the Moscow Engineering Institute. At a meeting called to discuss young Daniel's case, the rector of the institute, Nikolai Strel-huk, expressed particular dissatisfaction about the number of Jews, like Daniel, who had been hired at the institute...
...positive outcome of the talks would undoubtedly help improve Soviet-American relations and preserve and strengthen the peace. -Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny...
Meanwhile, Czechoslovakia's two top leaders, Party Boss Gustav Husák and President Ludvik Svoboda, are on "vacation" in the Crimea, where they have met with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and President Nikolai Podgorny. In all likelihood, the Russians openly pressed Husák to sign a statement formally approving the invasion; so far, he has stopped just short of doing that. But undoubtedly, they added a final warning that Moscow has ordered Aug. 21 to be a cool...
...tone of Ribman's play original. The combination of resignation and amused tolerance which characterizes landowner Nikolai Alexeevich Chulkaturin is reminiscent--deliberately so--of Camus' heroes. But there is a new dimension to Chulkaturin. He is awkward, comicly so at times. He possesses that amazing ability to stop a conversation dead merely by his appearance...
...played up the race to the moon in their domestic propaganda, and there was no evidence that Russians felt the same chagrin that bothered the U.S. when Sputnik 1 led the way into space. Russian TV provided only limited and delayed coverage of Apollo's flight. But President Nikolai Podgorny wired President Nixon after the splashdown: "Please convey our congratulations and best wishes to the courageous space pilots." Peking, on the other hand, attempted to jam all five of the Voice of America broadcasts in Chinese...