Word: nots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moments before the delegates were scheduled to recess for a luncheon of poached bass at the Italian embassy, Foreign Minister Panayotis Pipinelis of Greece interrupted the proceedings. Waving his hand in the air, he told Italy's Aldo Moro, chairman of the Council of Europe meeting in Paris: "I...
Solid Majority. Before walking out of the meeting on orders from Athens, Pipinelis delivered a passionate defense of the junta. "Some police irregularities" had occurred, he admitted, but "in which country have they not?" The colonels, he said, "are a transitory regime and have said so publicly."
In the Soviet intellectual world, Amalric is considered a combative gadfly. He has done time in Siberia, charged with writing "patently anti-Soviet" literature. He has not hesitated to criticize other Russian writers, notably Defector Anatoly Kuznetsov (TIME, Dec. 5). His forte is a particularly acute and abrasive sort of...
Amalric dismisses as "naive" the popular U.S. notion that the Soviet regime is mellowing with age. He scoffs at the theory that "the spread of Western cultural ideas and ways of life would gradually transform Soviet society, that foreign tourists, jazz records, and miniskirts would help to create 'human...
As the old regime ages and stagnates, Amalric says, Soviet society is growing more unstable. Sullen class rivalry has already developed, particularly between the bureaucratic elite and a middle class of intellectuals, managers and professionals. Both, in turn, are distrusted by the great surly majority-he mass of peasants and...