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For days it had been rumored that Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, 73, would appear last Friday to deliver an address to his Moscow constituents. The occasion was the eve of national elections for members of the Supreme Soviets, the nominal legislative bodies of the 15 Soviet republics. Instead, the assembled...
In the fall of 1936, it appeared the war would be a triumph both for the Republic and for the idea of the popular front For the first time, communists were participating in a non-communist government. The anarchists, who had broad support among the lower classes, had finally consented...
Last September the Superior Court of Justice in La Paz sentenced Suarez in absentia to 15 years in prison on drug-related charges. Catching him may not be easy, however. Earlier that year, Suarez had sent a small fleet of private planes in and out of Bolivian airports to ferry...
Given his taste for political theater, it was just the kind of occasion that appealed to Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Accompanied by five Cabinet ministers and two under secretaries, he paid his first official visit to Moscow last week. It was a four-day event that not only celebrated...
Thus, with a ruffle of pennants and a flourish of rhetoric, the German Democratic Republic last week celebrated the restoration of the Semper Opera House, 40 years to the day after one of Germany's most gracious cities was destroyed in a blazing rain of fire bombs. Despite the propaganda...