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Duplex Diplomacy. Did he mean it? As at least token proof, Russian-made MIGs?more than 100 of them?have arrived in the U.A.R. and Syria to begin replacing the estimated 400 planes destroyed by Israel. Another Cairo arrival was Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, the third man, with Kosygin and Brezhnev, in the Kremlin's collegial leadership. "The imperialists and their agents imagine that we have come here to exchange small talk," Podgorny told President Gamal Abdel Nasser. "But we will prove to them that we have come here for more than talk. We have come here to frustrate...
...board: Kosygin is the chief Soviet operating officer and head of government. A pragmatist, he remains aloof from ideological disputes and factional politics. Under his leadership, the government is slowly absorbing many of the administrative responsibilities long held by the party. The third member of the Kremlin triumvirate, President Nikolai Podgorny, is the least powerful, although in recent months he has emerged as a traveling Soviet spokesman to non-aligned nations such as Austria and, last week, Egypt...
...scene had an almost eerie unreality. There was Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, architect of his nation's most staggering defeat, beaming to the crowds with the confidence of a conqueror. And there was an equally ebullient Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, outwardly unconcerned that his latest Middle East adventure was dissolving like a Sahara mirage. When the smiling Presidents met at Cairo International Airport last week, Podgorny took Nasser's hand and held it high in a boxer's victory gesture. It was almost as if a dazed Sonny Liston, having just been counted...
...that audiences begin to equate their dutifulness with pleasure, and actors and directors tend to become bureaucratic keepers of tinier and tinier dramatic flames. That may be why the Stratford players perform best in a 19th century provincial satire, The Government Inspector, almost as if the bizarre Russian genius Nikolai Gogol had jolted them with a shock of local recognition...
SHOSTAKOVICH: KATERINA ISMAILOVA (3 LPs; Melodiya-Angel). This opera cost its composer considerable grief: shortly after he wrote it he was denounced by the Soviets for bourgeois intentions and vulgar execution. It is a brash work; at times openly satirical, at others tragically serious. The plot, based on Nikolai Leskov's story, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, tells of a frustrated wife who eventually destroys the men around her. All the characters are thoroughly unsympathetic. The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing. As the wife, Niconora Andreyeva has spirited dramatic presence...